io 4 THE PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF WOOD. 



ociandra Marsh. 



( ^Esculus oclandra 

 Buckeye, Sweet Buckeye, j ^ scu!us flava A it. 



Nomenclature. (Sudworth.) 



Buckeye (N. C., S. C., Ala., Yellow Buckeye (S. C Ala.). 



Miss La., Tex., Ky.). Large Buckeye, Big Buckeye 



Sweet Buckeye (W. Va., (Tex., Ten n.). 



Miss., Tex., Mo., Ind.). 



Locality. 



Alleghauy Mountains, Pennsylvania to Georgia, westward inter- 

 mittently to Iowa and Texas. 



Features of Tree. 



Forty to seventy feet in height, one to three feet in diameter, 

 sometimes low shrub. Large mahogany-colored seed. 



Color, Appearance, and Grain of Wood. 



Heartwood, creamy white, sapwood similar, compact structure, 

 close-grained, difficult to split. 



Representative Uses of Wood. 



Similar to those of Ohio Buckeye (A. glabra}. 



Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot. 

 26.64. 



Modulus of Elasticity. 

 Modulus of Rupture. 



Remarks. 



The California Buckeye (Msculus californica) or horse chestnut, 

 which grows along the Pacific Coast from Mount Shasta to Los 

 Angeles, is often quite small, but is sometimes, as to the north of San 

 Francisco, a beautiful tree of thirty or forty feet in height and two or 

 three feet in diameter. The soft, light, compact, close grained wood 

 could probably be employed in turnery. Sap woods and heartwoods 

 are of an even, ivory white color. 



