254 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



the Alleghany Mountains to northern Alabama. The 



wood is light and tough. 



The yellow or sweet buckeye is a 

 Yellow or Sweet 



Buckeye. large tree from 30 to 90 feet high 



yEscuivs flava. (southwestward it is only a shrub 6 



jEscuIub octandra. -. . . . -,.-1 . . n 



feet high), which grows m rich woods 

 from Allegheny County, Pa., southward along the 

 Alleghany Mountains to the vicinity of Augusta, 

 Ga., and northern Alabama, and westward 

 to southern Iowa and Texas. It owes 

 its name to the fact that the 

 tree does not possess the 

 disagreeable odor 



common to 

 other mem- 

 bers of the 

 family. 



The leaves 

 are composed of 



from five to Seven Sweet Buckeye ; one leaflet, flowers and nut. 



elliptical leaflets 



from four to six inches long. They are sharply and 

 rather evenly toothed, and often a trifle downy along 

 the ribs beneath. They are sometimes shed quite 

 early in September. The flowers are dull yellow.* 



* I have drawn the flower because it is distinctly different 

 from that of the Ohio buckeye ; the calyx is elongated and 



