THE HORSE-CHESTNUTS OR BUCKEYES. 253 



the attention of those who delight in " aesthetic " 

 color. 



Ohio or Fetid The Ohio or fetid buckeye is a small 



Buckeye. tree from 20 to 35 (rarely it is 70) 



Genius glabra. f ^ j^ ^^ gray bark ^ ft dig _ 



agreeable, rank odor. Its leaf is composed of five, 

 sometimes seven, long, ovate leaflets, 

 which are not broad and abruptly 

 pointed like those of the horse-chest- 

 nut. Their edges are rather un- 

 equally fine-toothed. The flowers 

 are small, not showy, and light yel- 

 low green. The fruit, which is 

 about an inch and a quarter or 

 two inches in diameter, has 

 prickles on the husk (which in- 

 closes two nuts) when it is 

 young ; otherwise it has a warty 

 appearance. The nut is smooth, 

 and an inch or more broad. 



The Ohio buckeye * grows on 

 river banks and low ground from 

 western Pennsylvania to southern 

 Iowa, central Kansas, and Indian Ter- Ohio Buckeye; 

 ritory ; southward it extends west of flowTrsTndnut. 



* The extensive growth of this species in Ohio, the " Buckeye 



State," occasioned that name. 



