In Latin, Juglans Tomentosa ; in French^ Hickorie. 



292. The I>otanical characters are : — It has male and female flowers at 

 separate distances on the same tree. The male flowers are disposed in 

 an oblong rope or katkin, which is cylindrical and imbricated, with spaces 

 between the scales ; each side has one flower, with one petal fixed in the 

 outer centre, toward the outside of the scale. The petal is divided into six 

 equal parts ; in the centre is situated many short stamina, terminated by erect 

 acute summits. The female flowers grow in small clusters, sitting close to 

 the branches ; these have a short, erect, four-pointed empaleraent, sitting on 

 the germen, and an acute erect petal, divided into four parts. Under the 

 empalement sits a large dry oval berry, with one cell, inclosing a large oval 

 nut with netted furrows, the kernel of which has four lobes which are vari- 

 ously formed. 



293. There are divers sorts or varieties of the Hickory. 

 MicHAUx counts no less than eight varieties of this tree; 

 but the Americans make no distinction, except that of the 

 Shelbark Hickory Nut and the Hard Hickory Nut. 

 The wood appears to be pretty nearly the same in them all. 

 Some of the trees grow higher than the others; but the 

 Shelbark grows to the height of eighty or one hundred 

 feet, but never with a very thick stem or trunk, seldom 

 more than two feet or two feet and a half in diameter. The 

 tree grows in America, in all sorts of ground, from the 

 deepest and richest valleys to the highest and poorest hills. 

 The tree, as an object to look at, is exceedingly beautiful, 

 loaded with leaves of a fine airy shape, and of a bright 

 green, turning yellow with the first frosts of the autumn, 

 and hanging upon the tree sas completely as if green, 

 for a month or six weeks after they have become of a bright 



