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 THE HORSE CHESNUT. 



HlPPOCASTANUM. PL 0. 



Fructification. Flowers in a long fpike, 

 each having five petals, feven chives, 

 and one pointal : feed-bud changing 

 into a fpinous capfule of three cells, 

 with two feeds in each, fotne of which 

 are abortive. 



Specific character. Leaves blunt - fpear- 

 fhaped, ferrated, growing by fevens 

 on one fialk, the middle one largeft. 



THIS tree, which is originally a native of 

 the Eaft, has not very long been natu- 

 ralized in England. Its introduction here 

 has been folely owing to its beauty, in 

 which, at the flowering feafon a it cer- 

 tainly excels every other tree of its bulk 

 that bears our climate. In early fpring it 

 puts forth large buds, which burft into ver- 

 dure 



