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Thick Shell-bark Hickory, C. STllca'ta, Nutt, is a nearly allied species 

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

 leaflets, an oval 4-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, Nutt. Leaflets T-9, oblong or obovate-lanceolate, 



Fig. 195. Tlie flowers of the Mocker Nat Hickory (Carya tomentosa) ttie pistillate flow- 

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

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



