BUTTERNUT; WRITE WALNUT; OIL NUT (Juglans cinerea, Linn.). 50 to 75 feet. Short-trunked, spreading, irregular tree, with round dome. Bark rough, gray, paler in furrows that are broader than the ridges. Twigs clammy, pubescent with chambered pith. Buds often one above another in axils, downy. Wood light brown, soft, coarse, with satiny lustre when polished. Used for cabinet-work and interior finish of houses. Leaves alternate, compound, of 11 to 19 leaflets, along the stalk 15 to 30 inches long; aromatic, clammy, pubescent; leaflets yellow-green, saw-toothed, ses sile, pointed. Yellow in autumn. Flowers May; staminate
in long, yellowish catkins; pistillate in racemes, clammy, each with 2 red, spreading stigmas. Fruit October, few in cluster, oblong, clammy, pubescent, pointed, 2 to 3 inches long; shell deeply sculptured; kernel oily, sweet, edible. Dist.: Rich loam or well-drained uplands, New Brunswick to Delaware; along mountains to Georgia and Alabama; west through On tario to Dakota, and south through the Central States to Ar kansas.