MOCKERNUT HICKORY. 
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appearance, resembles the other Hickories. Its leaves are 8 or 9 inches 
long, and of a beautiful green. They are composed of 4 or 5 pair of sessile 
leaflets surmounted by a petiolated odd one. The leaflets are serrate, 4 or 
5 inches long, 8 or 9 lines broad, and very similar to the leaves of the 
Peach tree. 
The husk is thin, and the nuts are small, angular, a little depressed at 
the sides, somewhat rough, of a reddish color, and very tender. The ker- 
nel is very bitter, formed in folds like that of the Bitternut Hickory, and, 
as may be supposed, is not eatable. The wood of this species, though 
partaking of the common properties of the Hickories, is in every respect 
inferior to the others, from the nature of the grounds on which it grows. 
The Water Bitternut Plickory, which I have introduced into France, 
flourishes unchecked by the rigor of our winters ; but I do not think it 
deserves to find a place in the forests of Europe, nor to be spared in clear- 
ing the new lands of America. The southern parts of the United States 
possess many sorts of timber more useful in building, to which purpose this, 
like the other Hickories, is poorly adapted. 
PLATE XXXIV. 
branch with leaves of the natural size. Fig. 1, Nuts with their husks. 
Fig. 2, Nuts without their husks. 
MOCKERNUT HICKORY. 
JuGLANs TOMENTOSA, 1 . foRoUs 7-— Uvitcr serratis, conspicue villosis, impari 
subpetiolato ; amentis compositis, longissimis, fliformibus, eximie tomen- 
tosis : fructu globoso vel oblongo ; nuce quadrangulâ, crassâ, durissimâque. 
Càrya Tomentosa, Nutt. 
In the parts of New Jersey which lie on the river Hudson, and in the 
City of New York and its vicinity, this species is known by the name of 
Mockernut Hickory, and, less commonly, of White-heart Hickory ; at Phil- 
adelphia and Baltimore, and in Virginia, that of Common Hickory is the 
only one in use. The French of Illinois call it Noyer dur, or Hard Walnut. 
