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FIG. 219. HORSE-CHESTXUT (dUsculus hippocastanum). 



The lower branches of a well-clothed tree showing the pyramidal spires of blossom, which are here about one-twelfth of the 

 actual size. The flowers are white, splashed and spotted with red and yellow. Native of the mountain regions of S.E. EUROPE. 



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