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Tr£i.T),S ^KD USEFUL PLANTS. 



past, tlie trees (or, at least, the branciies^^ . in the spring, appeared every- 

 where to be disease-J and dying ; but they have still recovered again, more 

 or less completely, ih. the eoui-se of the summer. The cause of this phe- 

 nomenon, — (whether inbocts, as some suppose — or late unseasonable 

 frosts, as I incline to think.) has not been satisfactorily determined. 



Order LXYI. JUGLAXDA'CE^. (TValxut Fa^.iilt.) 



Jj-ges with a resinoxis sweet or vrateryjyics, alternate and odd-pinnate Zeare?, without sti- 

 pules, and monoecious floivers. — the staminate ones with an irregular calyx in amenis. — the 

 pisiitiate ones with a regular o-5-lohed caZyx, adherent to the ovary, solitary or in small 

 clusters. Ovary incompletely 2 -4-celled, with but one oiitZ^, becoming in/ruif a kind of dry 

 dmtpe, with a bony endocarp (nut-shell) , containing a large 4-lobed seed, without albumen. 

 Cotyledons fleshy and oily, sinuate-lobed. 



An Order consisting chiefly of WalndLs and IIid:ories, — valuable for their wood and 

 some of them for their fruit. 



1. JU'GLA^;."^, X. TTalxut. 



[Latin, Jovis GlaitSy the nut of Jupiter ; by way of eminence.] 



Amcnts of staminate fi. simple, cylindric, proceeding from buds without 

 leaves. Co.hjx adnate to an entire 1-flowered bract, 5 or 6-parted, — the 

 segments membranaceous, unequal Stamens numerous, sub-sessile. 

 Pistillate ji. terminal, solitary, or few and clustered. Calyx-tube ovoid 

 adherent to the ovary, — the limb 4-toothed, with 4 small petals alternat- 

 ing with the calyx teeth. Styles 2, very short. Stigi/ias 2, elongated, 

 recurved, papillose-fimbriate. Fruit drupaceous, containing a single 

 nut, — the epicarp (or hull) somewhat fleshy, fibrous within, iudehisceat, 

 — the 7iut woody, rugose and irregularly sulcate. Juice resinous-arom- 

 atic •, pith separated into transverse lamingg or plates ; young branches 

 brittle. Trees with nearly naked buds and odd-pinnate leaves of 

 numerous serrate leaflets. 



1. J. ee'gl^, L. Leaflets oval, rather acute, smootli, nearly entire ; fruit 

 roundish-oval ; nut sub-compressed, smoothish. 



Royal Juglaxs. English "^Yalnut. Madeira Nut. 



Fr. Noyer commuu. G:rm. Die Wallnuss. Span. Noguera. 



stem 20-30 or 40 feet high, branched. Leaflets 2-5 inches long, acute, or sometimes 

 rounded and emargiaato at apex, subserrate or entire, villous in the angles of the nerves 

 beneath, in 3 - 5 pairs with a terminal odd one, — the lower pairs smaller. Aments ovoid- 

 oblong, 2-3 inc hes in length. PislUlaie flovaers in small terminal clusters of 2-3, on a, 

 rather short common peduncle. 1/rupe ovai or subglobose, mucronate, about 2 inches long 

 and 1-2 inchea ji diameter, with a smoothish subcoriaceous epicarp; nut smoothish or 

 EomewliaS corni^ated. 



About houxes : cultU-ated. Native of Persia. Fl. ilay. F}\ Oct. 



Obs. Thi3 oriental -species is callcvi English TTalnut, in consequence, 

 as I suppose, of its having come to us by way of the mother country. 

 Such misnomers are not unfrequent. among cultivated plants. This one 



