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604 Sir William Strickland, grandfather of the present owner ; and several other hickories planted at the same time have disappeared, one being blown down. _

At Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, a seat of Earl Cawdor, a tree, which is supposed to have been planted in 1865, is 42 feet by 3 feet 1 inch. At Fonthill Abbey, Wilts, a tree, with very scaly bark, is 62 feet by 4 feet 1 inch. At Althorp there is a tree 75 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, growing in a dense thicket of laurels near the house.

A hickory which was perhaps of this species grew close to the house at Moncreiffe near Perth, and is mentioned by Hunter as being the finest in Scotland. It had a bole 20 feet long by 5 feet 9 inches, and was cut down about six years ago. The timber was used for making gates.

At Kinblethmont, Arbroath, H. Lindsay Carnegie, Esq., reports a tree 46 feet high by 2 feet 11 inches in girth. It was planted by his father about 1825.

In Ireland, the only specimens which Henry has seen are two small trees about a foot in diameter, growing in the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, and two at Kilmacurragh, in Wicklow, about 35 feet high.

A tree attaining in America 90 feet in height and 12 feet in girth, Bark greyish, ultimately fissuring into narrow longitudinal ridges, occasionally on old trees breaking on the surface into loose thick scales. Terminal buds, ¼ to ⅓ inch long, globose or ellipsoidal, with ten to twelve imbricated scales; outer scales usually deciduous in winter, keeled, acute, or pointed, glabrous, ciliate, often glandular ; inner scales pubescent, enlarging to 2 inches long as the bud unfolds. Lateral buds small, ovoid, often glandular, with two scales visible externally. Branchlets glabrous, or rarely with a minute pubescence speedily disappearing. Leaves (Plate 203, Fig. 2) 8 to 12 inches long. Leaflets, five to seven, upper three obovate, lower one or two pairs oblong lanceolate, all acuminate ; margin without cilia ; upper surface glabrous, with numerous minute glands ; lower surface glabrous, except for slight tufts of pubescence in the axils of the midrib and lateral nerves, covered with numerous glands ; rachis glabrous,


 * This is given as Carya glabra, Schneider, by Sargent in Bot. Gazette, xliv. 226 (1907).