base;
surface much wrinkled and corrugated; flavor sweetish.

[Illustration: FIG. 15. H. Minima and two of its hybrids, Westbrook and
Pooshee.]

Specimens of this nut were secured from Dr. J. F. Wilson,
Poulan, Ga., who received them from Prof. Burgess, Clemson
College, S. C. The nut presents exactly the same
characteristics as the Westbrook, except in flavor and color of
kernel. It, too, is doubtless a hybrid, _H. minima_ x _H.
pecan_. The original tree of this variety stands by or in the
old Ravenel cemetery, near Pinopolis, Berkely county, S. C.

[Illustration: _Photo by Dr. Wm. Trelease._

FIG. 16. The Schneck Hybrid.]

SCHNECK. In the autumn of 1894, Dr. J. Schneck, of Mt. Carmel,
Ill., and F. Reppert, of Muscatine, Iowa, sent to the
herbarium twigs and fruit of bottom-land trees that appear to
be hybrids of this species with the pecan. The bark of the Iowa
tree is described as being much like that of the Mockernut,
while the tree of Dr. Schneck is smooth-barked, resembling the
pecan. So far as I have seen them, the twigs of both might pass
for those of alba, except that the outer scales of the
terminal buds are persistent, while the foliage, though
intermediate, is strongly suggestive of that of the pecan. The
fruit is oblong, almost 2 inches long, the husk 6 mm. thick,
parted nearly to the base, with strongly elevated margins to
the segments, and rather persistent on the tree. The nuts are
nearly as pale as in the Shagbark, conspicuously brown striped,
slightly 4-celled at the very base, and with a wall only 1 mm.
thick. As is usual in ALBA, they are upwardly attenuate, and
frequently the kernel is abortive. (Trelease, Wm., 7th Report
Mo. Bot. Garden, 1896, pp. 44-45.)

WESTBROOK. Size small, 1-3/8 x 7/8 inches; ovate, flattened,
prominently sutured; color brown with a few indistinct brownish
streaks close to the apex; base rounded; apex wedge-shaped,
ridge, abruptly-pointed; shell rough and irregular, thin, 8.5
mm.; partitions rather thin, 4-celled at base; kernel
reddish-brown, much wrinkled, sutures of moderate width and
depth, halves divided at the base, much corrugated in cross
section; flavor decidedly bitter and puckery.

The parent tree is one standing in the yard of J. H. Westbrook,
Mt. Olive, N. C., and grew from wh