ORD. XXXVIII]. TRIHILATZ. 
From Tres, three, and Hilum, an external mark or scar on eaclé 
of the three seeds where they are attached to the fruit. 
ncn n= mE GME ac 
ZESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. COMMON HORSE CHESNUT, 
RR et SRR 
SYNONYMA. Hippocantanum. Pharm. Edinb. Castanea 
folio multifido. Bauh. Pin. p. 419. Castanea equina. Ger. 
mac. p. 1442, Park. Theat. p. 1401. Rati. Hist. p. 1683. 
Hippocastanum. Hail. Stirp. Helo. n. 1029, 2, Hip. Miller 
Tllust. Hunt. Evel. vol, i. p. 359. 
Class Heptandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 462. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 1-phyllus, 5-dentatus, ventricosus. Cor. 5-petala, 
inaqualiter colorata, calyci inserta. Cups. 3-locularis, 
Sp. Ch. Z£. foliolis septenis. 
THIS tree frequently grows to a great height," and from the 
upper part of the trunk usually sends off numerous spreading 
branches, covered with rough brown bark: the leaves are digitated, 
composed commonly of seven large lobes, which are long, obversely 
oval, serrated, ribbed, of a pale green colour, and proceed from a 
* A Horse Chesnut-tree, above 80 years old, and 50 feet high, still continued in 
a healthy and growing state. Sammi, 4, Berner landwirthschaftl, Gesellsch. vot. 
ti. p. 943, ° 
No. 48.—vor. 4 7 
