HICKORY. 
Natural Order Juglande^e, (Decand.) Limumn Classi- 
fication, MoNtECIA, PoLYANDRIA. 
CARYAt (Nutt. Gen. Am.) 
Staminate flowers in very long and loose ternate aments, scales 
imbricated, 3-parted. Stamens 3 to 6, with pilose anthers. 
Fertile flower with a single 4-cleft superior herbaceous peri- 
anth. Style none; stigma partly discoid, 2-lobed, the segments 
bifid. Pericarp woody, 4-valved. Nut mostly somewhat 
quadrangular, with an even surface. 
Large trees of North America, confined to the eastern side of 
the Rocky Mountains, and extending from Upper Canada to 
Florida. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, without stipules. 
Flowers polygamous, in compound pendulous pedunculated 
aments appearing with the leaves; female flowers terminal; the 
pericarp opening by 4 valves. Nuts edible or bitter, usually 
more or less quadrangular; in the Pakan even. Pubescence 
tufted or stellate. (Persoon, as far back as 1807, divided the 
genus Juglans into the two natural sections which it presented; 
his second division included the Hickories only. “ * * Amentis 
masculis compositis , tetrandrisP) 
•j* From KdipUCL) the ancient Greek name of the Walnut. Hickory 
is an Indian name for some of the species of this genus; one 
of them was known to the Indians by the name of Pecan or 
Pakan\ Rafinesque applied the barbarous name Hiekoria to 
this genus, without describing or limiting it; in so doing he has 
no higher claims for the adoption of the name than our woods- 
men and the aborigines. 
