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Ohio Buckeye, Fetid Buckeye. ^Esculus glabra Willd. 



Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) 



Buckeye, Ohio Buckeye (local Stinking Buckeye (Ala., Ark.). 



and common names). American Horse Chestnut (Pa.). 



Fetid Buckeye (W. Va.). 



Locality. 



Ohio River basin to Alabama, portions of Iowa, Kansas, and 

 Indian Territory. 



Features of Tree. 



Twenty-five to forty-five feet in height. One to one and one- 

 half feet in diameter. Yellowish-white flower, succeeded by 

 round prickly pod or fruit. 



Color, Appearance, or Grain of Wood. 



Heartwood white, sapwood a little darker, close-grained, fre- 

 quent dark lines of decay. 



Structural Qualities of Wood. 

 Weak, light, soft, hard to split. 



Representative Uses of Wood. 



Artificial limbs, woodenware, paper-pulp, rarely lumber. 



Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot. 



28. 

 Modulus of Elasticity. 



910,000. 

 Modulus of Rupture, 



7000, 

 Remarks. 



The nearly similar horse chestnut (A. hippncastanum] is forty to 

 fifty feet or more in height and two to four feet in diameter. The 

 light, weak wood is seldom used. The name horse may be applied to 

 the coarse nuts ironically, or may refer to their occasional use by 

 cattle, or a horseshoe marking seen on young twigs. 



