. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . s inaxillaf:y cymes. Fruit a fleshy 4-lobed capsule which spreadsopen when ripe exposing the bright red seeds. New York to Nebraska, Dakota, Kansas, Florida^ Arkansasand Texas. A beautiful shrub, particularly in autumn after the capsulesopen. AESOULACEAE Lindley. The Buckeye Family. Aesculus. The Buckeyes. Trees with brown or gray, scaly bark, stout twigs, largescaly buds; opposite palmately compound leaves; large showyflowers in terminal panicles and three lobed, j^ellowish greencapsules. Flowers reddish
. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . s inaxillaf:y cymes. Fruit a fleshy 4-lobed capsule which spreadsopen when ripe exposing the bright red seeds. New York to Nebraska, Dakota, Kansas, Florida^ Arkansasand Texas. A beautiful shrub, particularly in autumn after the capsulesopen. AESOULACEAE Lindley. The Buckeye Family. Aesculus. The Buckeyes. Trees with brown or gray, scaly bark, stout twigs, largescaly buds; opposite palmately compound leaves; large showyflowers in terminal panicles and three lobed, j^ellowish greencapsules. Flowers reddish. Leaves densely hairy beneath 1. A. austrina. Leaves smooth beneath 2. A. pavia. Flowers yellowish 3. A. octandra. 1. Aesculus austrina Small. Southern Buckeye. A shrubor small narrow topped tree sometimes 30° high with stoutbranches, light brown, smooth bark and drooping branchlets. The Trees of Texas I33 Leaves palinately compouDd; leaflets usually 5, sometimes 3,short stalked, pointed at the apex, unequal at base, serrate,smooth above, hairy beneath. Flowers in terminal panicles^. Fig-. 42. Aesculus pa via. red. with tubular calyx, and stamens longer than the a pear-shaped capsule with yellowish brown seeds. Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana and eastern Texas. In richsoil and along- rivers. 2. Aesculus pavia L. ]^ed Buckeye. A shrub or small 134 Bulletin of the University of Texas tree with smooth, brown bark, and purple twigs. Leavespalmately compound, leaflets 5-7, firm, pointed at the apex,finely serrate, lustrous and smooth above, almost smooth be-neath. Flowers in terminal panicles, red, with stamens aslong or longer than the petals. Fruit a smooth oblong, obovatecapsule with dark brown seeds. 3. Aesculus octandra Marshall. Sweet Buckeye. A largeforest tree 100° high or in our area sometimes a shrub withbrown, scaly bark. Leaves palmately compound with 5-7oval to obovate or elliptic leaflets, which are short-stalkedor sessile, long pcrnted at the apex, fin
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