. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. I and has been under favoura- im has a fine, 'but is rather arge, except in h and rose-col- â pose than that y for inlaying, 'ugar has been He suggests nught form a charcoal, and '6 soil be kept England, it is in the United lations where in its appear- ich move by â its attention Genus yESCULUS,
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. I and has been under favoura- im has a fine, 'but is rather arge, except in h and rose-col- â pose than that y for inlaying, 'ugar has been He suggests nught form a charcoal, and '6 soil be kept England, it is in the United lations where in its appear- ich move by â its attention Genus yESCULUS, Linn. iEsculaceoe. Syal. ifat. Heptandria Monogynia Syat. Lin Synonymes. JEsculus, Hippocastanum, Pavia, Of Authohs. Marronier tl'Indie, Rosskastanie. Ippocastano, Horse-chesnut, Buckeye, France. Germany. Italy. Britain and Anglo-America. Derivations. The wnrd JEsculus, derived from the Latin, tsca, nourishment, was applied by Pliny to a species of oak which had an edible acorn. The name Ifippocaslanuvi, derived from the Greeic, hippos, a horse, and castanon, a chesnul, is sup- posed to have been given to this tree, because, in Turlcey, the nuts were uaed for curing horses of pulmonary diseases. The name, Pavia, is so called, in honour of Peter Paw, a Dutch botanist. Distinctive Character. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed. Ovary roundish, trigonal. Seeds large and globose: albumen wanting. Embryo curved, inverted, with fleshy, thick, gibbous cotyledons, not produced above ground in germination. Plumule large, 2-ieaved.âLoudon, Arboretum. Y most modern botanists, the order iEsculacene, is supposed to embrace two separate genera, jEsculus and Pavia, distinguished from each other chiefly by the former having echinated capsules, and the latter by having them smooth ; and also of the compar- ative roughness of their leaves. To us it appears doubtful, _ whether these circumstances are a sufficient generic distinction, since they vary much in ditrerent individuals, and since, in some of
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