nut— A shrub or small tree: bark rather tlii.-k, -ray. 
-i-aly ; twiir-^ slender, gray with u tinge of red or yellow, 
at first very deii-<^1y huff-irray toinentose, the tonuMitiini at 
length falliiiir ^y\ih the epidermis and exposing the >mall 
rounded pnle leniircl-: {)ith very -mall, hrowni-^h. with 
chamber- se\eral tinic> as wid«^ a- the tliin diaphragm-; 
nut often ero-elv r<)uidu-iu>d.— Texa-, Xi-.v MvxUo and 
Arizona, extending into Mexico.— PI. "24. f. 5-7. 
3. J. CALiFORxrcA, Watson.— The Californian Walnut.— 
Asuiallornu-dium -iz»'d troo : bark thin, from whiti-h becom- 
at the tip. ami brown after the falling of the.-ihcry epider- 
mis, lenticels pale, very ,>mall but evident; pith larg»'. 
j-lightly darker, otheru i>e as in the ln<t ; terminal buds 
somewhat less elongated, of the color of the tnigs or gray- 
