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SMALL FRUITED HICKORY. 
serrulations, smooth on both sides when fully expanded, 
except a slight tuft in the axills of the nerves beneath; 
the under surface sprinkled with minute resinous parti- 
cles; the lateral leaflets subsessile and rather obtuse at 
base, the terminal one with a short petiole and attenu- 
ated below. Aments 3 together, upon a common 
peduncle, slender, nearly quite smooth, scales trifid, the 
lateral segments ovate, the middle one long and linear; 
anthers hairy, mostly 4, sometimes 3 or 5. Female 
flowers 2 or 3 together, sessile, on a common peduncle; 
segments of the perianth very long and somewhat folia- 
ceous. Stigma discoid, 4-lobed; fruit globose-ovoid, 
about f of an inch in diameter; the pericarp thin, with 
the sutures rather prominent. Nut somewhat quadran- 
gular with the shell thin. 
By the leaves it appears to be allied to C. glabra , but 
the nut, on a small scale, is that of C. tomentosa or the 
common Hickory. 
Plate XIII. 
A small branch, reduced about a third, a. The nut. 
Common Hickory, ( Carya tomentosa , (3. maxima .) This 
is a remarkable variety for the great size of its fruit, 
which are as large as a moderate apple. It grows a 
few miles from Philadelphia. Mr. Elliott also observed 
it on the sea islands of South Carolina. 
Carya glabra , ( Juglans glabra , Du Roi, Harbk., vol. 1. p. 
335. J. porcina, Mich. North Am. Sylva, vol. 1. pi. 38,) 
of this there are two varieties, one with globose, and 
the other with turbinate fruit: intermediate forms are 
also met with, proving them to be no more than varie- 
ties. 
