CHAPTER II. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOREST TREES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 



AND OREGON. 



iEscuLUS Californica, Nutt. The California Buckeye. 

 M. Californica, Nutt. Torr. & Gray, Flor. I, p. 251. 

 M. Californica, Nutt. Sylva, 2, p. 69, t. 74. 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 1. Leaves and flowers of JE. Californica, £ natural size, and a flower of the natural size. 



Description. — A shrub, or low spreading tree ; leaflets 5, lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, 

 narrowed toward the rounded base, serrulate, glabrous, glaucous, or colored below ; flowers 

 large in a dense thyrsus, six inches long by three in diameter ; petals rose-colored, spreading 

 widely, shorter than the stamens ; calyx unequally 5-parted ; stamens 5-6 ; fruit large, 

 spheroidal, somewhat pointed, slightly tuberculated. 



The Californian buckeye grows abundantly in most parts of the Sacramento valley, par- 



