. 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 102nd meridian . 3. Aesculus arguta Buckl. Shrubby or U'estern Buckeye. Fig. 2817. Ae. arguta Buckl. Proc. Phil. Acad, i860: 443- '860. .\ 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' lon
. 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 102nd meridian . 3. Aesculus arguta Buckl. Shrubby or U'estern Buckeye. Fig. 2817. Ae. arguta Buckl. Proc. Phil. Acad, i860: 443- '860. .\ 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. .-\rb. .\m. 4. 17S5. 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. .\ large tree, with maximum height of 85°-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, Arieghany Co., Pa., to Georgia, west to Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas. Wood soft, creamy white; weight per cubic foot 27 lbs. Large buckeye. Ap
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