N. ORD.—SAPIN DACE. 44 
Tribe.—HIPPOCASTANEA. 
GENUS.—ASCULUS. 
SEX. SYST.—HEPTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
ASCULUS GLABRA. 
BUCKEYE. 
SYN.—AISCULUS GLABRA AND PALLIDA, WILLD, ; 4. ECHINATA, MUHL. ; 
A. OHIOENSIS AND MACROSTACHYA, MICHX.; PAVIA GLABRA AND 
PALLIDA, SPACH.; P. ALBA, POIR.; P. MACROSTACHYA, LOIS.; MAC- 
ROTHYRSUS DISCOLOR, SPACH. 
COM. NAMES.—OHIO BUCKEYE, FETID BUCKEYE, SMOOTH HORSE- 
CHESTNUT. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH NUT OF ASSCULUS GLABRA, WILLD. 
Description.—This species differs from the preceding in the following par- 
ticulars: Bark exhaling a very unpleasant odor, similar to that of the flowers of 
the preceding. Leaf small, smooth; /eaflets 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, and finely 
serrate. nflorescence smaller and more cymose ; flowers small, pale yellow, nar- 
rowly tubular-campanulate, polygamous. /etads only 4, upright, not reflexed. 
Stamens curved, not declined; f/aments filiform, long-hairy. vit echinulate 
with very short pyramidal points. 
History and Habitat.—The Buckeye is indigenous to the United States, where 
it ranges from Western Pennsylvania and Virginia to Michigan, Indiana, and Ken- 
tucky; it habits the rich alluvial soil along the bottom-lands of the Ohio River and 
the streams feeding it, and blossoms in June. 
The previous uses of this species are almost identical with those of A‘. Hip- 
pocastanum, though not so extensive, as its qualities are more toxic, and were, on 
that account, dreaded. 
PART USED AND PREPARATION.—The fresh-hulled nut is treated as in 
the preceding species. The resulting tincture has a clear amber color by trans- 
mitted light; a honey-like odor; a slightly bitter and pungent taste; and an acid 
reaction. 
ZEsculus glabra should be more thoroughly proven, as its symptoms cover a 
larger therapeutic field than its congener. The tincture for this further proving 
should include the nut-shells and bark as well as the kernels; a larger scope 
would undoubtedly be covered by such a preparation, 
