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Raf.—Ptelea Rob. p. 509. A large shrub 20 fee t 
high, branches long with few leaves, bark grey¬ 
ish white, leaves on long petiols : flowers green¬ 
ish, petals linear patent, longer than the calyx, a 
short style and only one stigma ! Samare white. 
The leaves have a strong and disagreeable smell, 
from which it is called vulgarly Bois puant (Stink¬ 
ing wood ;) but the flowers have a most fragrant 
smell. Perhaps a new genus ? 
359. Juglans nigra L. Rob. p 509. Rising to 80 feet, 
diameter three to four feet, blossoms in April. 
360. Hicorius amara Raf. ? Juglans amara Mich.—• 
Juglans alba ovata Rob. p. 510. Robin describes 
with accuracy the fructification of this tree ; but 
scarcely notices the leaves. It rises to 100 feet, 
the bark is grey, the leaves have nine to eleven 
small folioles, male flowers trifid tetrandrous, fe¬ 
male with a longer division in the calyx, blossoms 
in April. My genus Hicorius , long ago proposed, 
contains all the species of Juglans which have tri¬ 
fid male flowers (instead of six cleft) generally 
tetrandrous, and fruits with angular and quadrifid 
shells. 
361. Hicorius integrifoUa Raf. Foliolis 9—11 lan- 
ceolatis acuminatis integris glabriusculis, ramulis 
petiolisque tomentosis ; floribus 6—8 andris, la- 
cinia media lepigonalis elongata acuminata, sepa- 
lo femineo-elongato acuminato, nucibus 4-gonis 
Raf.—Noyer pacanier amer Rob. p. 511. It is 
very different from the real Pacanier or Hicorius 
oliveformis. It is a very tall tree, with a brown 
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