"WAL^'UT FAMILY. 



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Thick Shell-bark Hickory, C. sulca'ta, -^ ''ft. is a nearly allied species 

 found in Pennsvlrania and westward. It is distinguished by having 7-9 

 leaflets, an oval -l-ribbed fruit with intervening furrows and a yellowish, 

 thick-shelled, strongly-pointed nut. 



Seed small, but edible; valves of the hull only partially separating. 

 3. C. tomento'sa, yi'tt- Leaflets 7-9, oblong or obovate-lanceolate, 



Tig. 195. Tne flo-^ors of the Mocker Nat Hickory (Carya tomentosa) the pistillate flo-w- 

 ers above, the staminats ones in loose hanging aments. 196. A separate pistillate flower 

 197. The ripe nut showing the hask (epicarp) splitting into 4 valves. - 



