. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Aesculus arguta Buckl. Shrubby or Western Buckeye. Fig. 2817. Ae. arguta Buckl. Proc. Phil. Acad, i860: 443. i860. A shrub, 3°-io° high, or a small tree, with smooth bark. Twigs, young petioles, leaves and inflorescence somewhat pubescent, becoming glabrate; leaflets 7-9, narrow, 3-4' long, about i' wide, long-acuminate, unequally serrate; inflorescence dens
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Aesculus arguta Buckl. Shrubby or Western Buckeye. Fig. 2817. Ae. arguta Buckl. Proc. Phil. Acad, i860: 443. i860. A shrub, 3°-io° high, or a small tree, with smooth bark. Twigs, young petioles, leaves and inflorescence somewhat pubescent, becoming glabrate; leaflets 7-9, narrow, 3-4' long, about i' wide, long-acuminate, unequally serrate; inflorescence dense, 4-6' long; flowers yellow, " the centre reddish "; calyx broadly campanulate, its lobes very obtuse; stamens exserted, curved; petals parallel, 5"-6" long; fruit very spiny when young. Missouri and Kansas to Texas, and recorded from Iowa. Similar to the preceding species, but apparently distinct. March-April. 4. Aesculus octandra Marsh. Yellow Sweet or Big Buckeye. Fig. 2818. Aesculus octandra Marsh. Arb. Am. 4. 1785. Ae. lutea Wang. Schrift. Nat. Fr. Berl. 8 : 133. pi. 6. 1788. Aesculus flava Ait. Hort. Kew. i: 494. 1789. Aesculus hybrida DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 75. 1813. Ae. flava var. purpurascens A. Gray, Man. Ed. 3, 118. 1867. A large tree, with maximum height of 8s°-90° and trunk diameter of 2i°-3°, rarely reduced to a shrub; bark dark brown, scaly. Leaves petioled, the petiole commonly slightly pubescent; leaflets 5, rarely 7, 4-7' long, 2'-3' wide, oval, glabrous or pubescent on the veins above, more or less pubescent beneath, acuminate at the apex, the lower ones oblique, the others cuneate at the base, all finely serrate; inflorescence rather loose, puberulent; flowers yellow; petals 4, long-clawed, con- nivent, the 2 upper narrower and longer than the lower; stamens included; fruit smooth even when young. Woods, AMeghany Co., Pa,, to Georgia, west to Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas. Wood soft. Creamy white; weight per cubic foot 27 lbs. Large buck
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