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Forestry ^1 £ •MANiToe; WHITE. A/ALNUT OIL NUT cv? BUTTERNUT k/UQLANS cinerea J^, , J)y White Walnut, Oil Nut or Butternut. {Juglans cinerea) Much smaller than the last, rarely loo feet high; with much smoother bark and larger, coarser, compound leaves, of fewer leaflets but the petioles or leaflet stalks and the new twigs are covered with sticky down. "The bark and the nut are also used to give a brown color to wool. The Shakers at Lebanon dye a rich purple with it. Bancroft says that the husks of the shells of the Butternut and Black Walnut, may be employed in dyeing a fawn color, even without mordants. By means of them, however, greater brightness and durability are given to the color. The bark of the trunk gives a black, and that of the root a fawn color, but less powerful. From the sap an inferior sugar has been obtained. The leaves, which abound in acrid matter, have been used in the form of powder as a substitute for Spanish Flies." (Emerson.) A decoction of the inner bark, preferably of the root, is a safe mild purge, a teaspoonf ul of it as dark as molasses is a dose. The wood is light-brown, soft, coarse, not strong but very enduring in weather and ground work; light; leaves 15 to 30 inches long; leaflets II to 19 in number and 3 to 5 inches long; fruit oblong 2 to 3 inches long.