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^ESCULUS neglecta. 
Dingy-flowered Horse-Chestnut. 
HEPTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Hippocastaneje. 
jESCULUS. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 310. 
M. neglecta; foliis lanceolatis serrulatis basi attenuatis planis subplicatis 
subtus glabris ad axillas venarum pilosis, calyce campanulato obtus& 
5-dentato pedunculi longitudine, staminibus corolla sublongioribus, 
petalis superioribus venosis, ovario tomentoso. 
jE. flava affinis ; differt tamen, Petiolo glabro subterete vix depresso; 
Foliolis magis glabris, ad axillas venarum pilosis, venis supra rufo-puberulis; 
Calyce subrotundo campanulato, pilis nigris, glandulosis vestito, pedicelli 
longitudine, subregular iter obtuse 5-dentato; Petalis jE. Jlavce similibus, 
superioribus latioribus, cuneato-obovatis, subundulatis, pulcherrimt rubro 
venosis; lateralibus rubentibus; Staminibus pilosiusculis petalorum latera- 
lium longitudine; Ovario oblongo tomentoso. 
This new species was purchased by the Horticultural 
Society from M. Catros, of Bourdeaux, under the name of 
JE. Ohiotensis, a very different kind. It is most nearly 
related to M. flava, a common plant, from which it differs 
in several important respects. 
It flowers a week or ten days earlier than that species; 
the Petiole is smooth, roundish, and scarcely flattened; 
the Leaflets are more glabrous, with rufous down on the 
veins on the upper side, and with hairs at the axils of the 
veins beneath; the Calyx is roundish, campanulate, clothed 
with black, glandular hairs, is the length of the pedicels, 
and is pretty regularly and bluntly 5-toothed; the Petals 
are like those in M. flava, but the upper ones are broader, 
cuneate-obovate, somewhat wavy, and beautifully veined 
with red; the lateral petals are also pinkish ; the Stamens 
