. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Red Buckeye 66i hairy, becoming smooth and gray, the buds smooth, not sticky, blunt, the terminal ones 6 mm. long or more. The leaves are usually composed of five leaflets; the leaf-stalk is stout, finely hairy, 7 to 15 cm. long; the leaflets are usually short- stalked, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, pointed, 6 to 15 cm. long, finely and somewhat irregularly toothed, and when mature are bright green and shining on the
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Red Buckeye 66i hairy, becoming smooth and gray, the buds smooth, not sticky, blunt, the terminal ones 6 mm. long or more. The leaves are usually composed of five leaflets; the leaf-stalk is stout, finely hairy, 7 to 15 cm. long; the leaflets are usually short- stalked, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, pointed, 6 to 15 cm. long, finely and somewhat irregularly toothed, and when mature are bright green and shining on the upper side, but pale and densely velvety-hairy on the under surface; the lower ones are sometimes very unequal-sided at the base. The flowers open in April or May, the clusters i dm. long or longer, the flower-stalks densely and finely hairy; the calyx is finely hairy or nearly smooth, tubular or tubular-bell-shaped, 10 to 15 mm. long, its lobes short and blunt; the petals are very unequal, red, similar to those of the Red buckeye; the stamens are about as long as the narrower pair of petals and have hairy filaments; the ovary is hairy. The fruit is pear- shaped or nearly globular, 6 cm. long or less, smooth, its valves thin; the seeds are yellow-brown, 2 to cm. broad. 5. RED BUCKEYE —.fflsculus Pavia Linnaeus While usually a shrub not over 4 meters high, the Red buckeye occasionally forms a small tree 6 meters tall. It grows in rich soil, in woods and along streams, from Virginia to Florida, westward to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, flowering in March, April, or May. The bark is smooth and brown. The young twigs are finely hairy or smooth, round, gray to brown, the buds not resinous. The leaves have 5 or 7 stalked leaflets; the slender leaf- stalk is 15 cm. long or less; the leaflets are ob- long, oblanceolate or obovate, rather thin, very finely and closely toothed, 5 to 15 cm. long, pointed, dark green, smooth and shining on the upper surface when mature, paler green
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