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type,
Juglans mandshurica, until by accident I happened to get word from
the Yokohama Nursery Company to the effect that they had made up
that name in the office a few years ago, not knowing that a previous
Juglans mandshurica existed and had been named by Maxim. So that
traces the rodent to its hole. The name Juglans mandshurica by Maxim
is the proper name for the worthless butternut-like nut from China. De
Candolle named the valuable walnut that has been sent out by the
Yokohama Nursery Company Juglans regia sinensis. So both of these
nuts have been previously named, and by authority.
Professor Craig: It is a question, then, of priority.
President Morris: Yes, a question of priority; but really the Yokohama
Company had no right to make up that name. It was simply made up in
the office as a matter of trade convenience, and they attached to this
Juglans regia nut a name that had been applied to an entirely different
nut, not knowing that this name had been previously applied. So there
is a Juglans mandshurica and a Juglans regia sinensis, respectively.
Mr. Littlepage: Is the walnut, Juglans mandshurica, which you have
been discussing, similar to the ordinary butternut of the Middle West,
the Indiana white walnut?
President Morris: You can find nuts much alike on first inspection, but
the mandshurica nut has six ridges in addition to the suture ridges. The
leaf of Juglans mandshurica is sometimes a yard in length, with
twenty-seven to thirty-one leaflets, sometimes--an enormous tropical
leaf. The nut is usually too small to be valuable.
Mr. Littlepage: I have seen the butternut of the Middle West nearly
similar, but it grows on the ordinary tree with white bark, and has small

leaves.
President Morris: The general outline of the nut is about the same in
both, but the air chambers are very much larger in the mandshurica
than they are in the butternut and there is a marked difference in the
flavor. You can distinguish them readily enough.
Mr. Littlepage: The butternut grows wild throughout the Middle West,
usually along small water courses and alluvial lands. There are perhaps
one hundred and fifty on a creek corner on one of my farms.
President Morris: They are very plenty here at Ithaca. In fact, you will
find them in Maine and Nova Scotia.
Mr. Littlepage: I saw them in Michigan.
President Morris: I will state, that from two until four the members will
view the collections, and make the tour of the Campus buildings.
During that time the report on competition, or at least examination of
specimens in competition, should be made, and I would like to appoint
Professor Reed and Mr. Littlepage on that committee, and I will serve
as ex-officio member of the committee. The other committees I can
make up a little later. The next order of business will be the President's
address. Mr. Littlepage, will you take the chair?

THE HICKORIES.
ROBERT T. MORRIS, M. D.
So far as we know, the hickories, belonging to the Juglandaceae, are
indigenous to the North American continent only. Representatives of
the group occur naturally from southern Canada to the central latitude
of Mexico, in a curved band upon the map, which would be bounded
upon the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and on the
west roughly by the Missouri River, until that river bends east from the
eastern boundary of Kansas. From the angle of that bend the hickory
runs approximately southwest into Mexico.

The exact number of species has not been determined as yet, because of
the open question of specific or varietal differences in some members
of the family. Sargent's classification at present includes eleven species:
Hicoria pecan, H. Texana, H. minima, H. myristicaeformis, H. aquatica,
H. ovata, H. Carolinae-septentrionalis, H. laciniosa, H. alba. H. glabra,
and H. villosa. To this list may be added H. Mexicana (Palmer), which
so far seems to have been found only in the high mountains of Alvarez,
near San Louis Potosi in Mexico; and H. Buckleyi from Texas, which
was described once by Durand, and since that time overlooked by
writers, excepting by Mrs. M. J. Young in 1873, who included the
species in her "Lessons in Botany." Professor Sargent tells me that the
Buckley hickory will be included in the next edition of Sargent's
"Manual of the Trees of North America." This brings the number of
species up to thirteen. In addition we have well marked varieties: H.
glabra odorata, H. glabra pallida, and H. glabra microcarpa, making
sixteen well defined hickories that have been described.
Nuts of all of these hickories are in the collection of "Edible Nuts of the
World" at Cornell University, with the exception of nuts of the varieties
H. glabra odorata and H.