CARYA

(Lat.), n. f. Ka^ka^'i^u^-a1. Gr., Kopva. Fr., car ye. Ger., Nu baum. 1. Of the ancients, a name applied to several trees with hard fniit, especially the walnut-tree. 2. Of Nuttall, the hickory; a genus of juglandaceous trees closely related to the genus Jur/laiis. The inner bark has been chewed with advantage in dyspepsia, and a tincture has been succe fully used in intermittent fever. [A, 308 (a, 17); B, 42, 121; Engler (B, 245).] C. alba [Nuttall]. The shag-bark or shell-bark; a tall, slender tree of the Atlantic United States, having a shaggy bark of loose dependent laminae. The compre ed, rounded, thin-shelled nut contains a sweet kernel from which a drying oil like that of the walnut is obtained. The bark is said to contain quercitrin and to be available for the manufacture of a greenish dye. [B, 34, 173, 270.] C. amara [Nuttall]. The bitter-nut; a tree growing throughout the United States, having a subglobose white, brittle nut with very bitter, hardly edible kernel which furnishes an oil like that of C. alba. [B, 34, 173.] C. aquation [Nuttall]. The water bitternut; a tree 30 or 40 feet high, growing in swampy grounds of the southern United States. The small, angular nuts have a brittle, reddish shell and a very bitter kernel. [B, 34, 180.] C. aromatic a. An ancient name lor the Myristic a. [B, 121.] C. basilice. Gr., Kapva /3a j. The walnut-tree. [Dioscorides (B, 285).] C. glabra [Torrey]. See C. porcina.C. micro carp a [Nuttall]. A tree 60 to 80 ft. high, growing in moist woods of the central United States, bearing edible nuts of the size of a nutmeg. [B, 84.] C. olivaeformis [Nuttall]. Fr., pacanier, noyer-pacanier. The pecan, a large tree growing throughout the Mi i ippi valley, bearing a THE CARYA OLIV^FORM IS. [A, 327.] The fruit and leaf are reduced. thin-shelled, olive-shaped nut which is much sought after as a delicacy, and which contains a fixed oil like that of the walnut. [B, 34, 81, 173.] C. ovata. Sp., quauchickic [Mex. Ph.]. A Mexican species. The bark is used in diarrhoea. [BJ C. persica. The Juglans. [B, 121.] C. porcina [Nuttall]. The pig-nut; a large tree growing throughout the United States and Canada, having a rounded, obovate, or pyriform nut, which contains an edible, though bitterish and astringent, kernel, which is eaten by pigs and other animals. [B, 34.] C. sulcata [Nuttall]. The thick shellbark, a tree growing in the United States, with shaggy bark in loose narrow plates, and bearing a very thick-shelled nut which is pointed at either end. The kernel is larger than that of C. alba and nearly as good for eating. [B, 34, 180.] C. to mentos a [Nuttall]. The mocker-nut; a large tree growing throughout the United States, especially in the South and West, having a thick and rough but not scaly bark, and bearing a large, rounded, somewhat hexagonal nut with a very thick husk and a rather small, edible kernel. A crystalline principle, caryin, believed to be identical with quercitrin, has been found in its bark. [A, 308 (a, 17); B, 34.] CARYCA (Lat.), [s. 104]