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diffuse fuscate, leaves petiolate ovate acute sub- 

 serrate undulate, smooth glossy yellowish, mar- 

 gin villose, peduncles filiform villose, nuts ovate 

 angles obtuse Europe and Sibiria. Var. san- 

 guinea leaves red. 



694. FAGUS ASPLENIFOLIA Raf. Leaves ovate 

 serrate laciniate or lanceolate lobulate Eu- 

 rope and Sibiria, a small tree. 



695. CASTANEA VESCA W. P. Dec. &c. Fa- 

 gus castanea L. <c. Leaves petiolate lanceo- 

 late acuminate, serrate by mucronate uncinate 

 teeth, smooth beneath, capsules echinate dis- 

 perme, nuts large dimidiate smooth mealy in- 

 side South of Europe, very large tree, nuts 4 

 times as large as ours, darker, farinaceous not 

 oily, one side flat, the other convex. 



696. CASTANEA AMERICANA Raf. 1804. vesca 

 var. amer. W. P. and the Amer. botanists. 

 Branchlets fuscate rugose, leaves petiolate o- 

 blong lanceol. acum. remotely mucronate ser- 

 rate, beneath glaucous and smooth (pubescent 

 in young leaves,) aments fasciculate spicate in- 

 terrupted glomerate, capsules echinate 3-5seed- 

 ed, nuts small ovate apex villose acute, coryla- 

 ceous sweet inside All over North America 

 from Canada to Louisiana and Origon, quite a 

 peculiar Sp. ascertained by me since 1804 in 

 my fl. columbica. A smaller tree than the Eu- 

 ropean only 40 to 60 feet high, growing in dry 

 and rocky ridges and Mts. leaves 4 to 8 inches 

 long, fruits quite unlike the European Chesnuts, 

 small similar to filberds in size and taste, sweet 

 oily, and edible raw, while the European must 

 be boiled or roasted being acerb. Nuttal has 

 well described the fructification. Var. 1. AN- 

 GUSTI FOLIA Raf. Leaves very long and narrow 



