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Dr. Sargent* at one time expressed doubt as to the occurrence of a red- 

 flowered arborescent buckeye in the southern mountains, and he re- 

 ferred to other species, the name which he had applied to such a form. 

 Ae. hybrida D. C, in place of being an Appalachian form seems to 

 be a hybrid developed and first propagated in France. But more re- 

 cently (Trees of Mount Vernon, 1917 )t Dr. Sargent notes cultivated 

 reddish-flowered trees, the seed from which they grew having been 

 brought from West Virginia by Washington. A form of Ae. odandra 

 quite similar to the description of some of the Mount Vernon trees 

 having flowers variegated with red and purple, has been collected in 

 Ashe and Yancey counties, ]N". C, as well as in Johnson County, 

 Tenn., about two miles above Mountain City ; and a somewhat differ- 

 ent form, with the leaves very pale beneath from near the upper edge 

 of the broadleaf forest on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, near 

 the Pinnacle, along the Mount Mitchell Railroad. 



Aesculus pavia L. the red-flowered buckeye of the coastal plain 

 frequently becomes a small unsymmetrical tree 15 to 20 feet high. 



U. S. Forest Service, 



Washington, D. C. 



*T. & S. 2:266. 1913. 



tPublished by the Mount Vernon Society. 



