

Genus /ESCULUS, L. (Buckeye, Horse Chestnut.) 



Fig. 115. — Sweet Buckeye, Big Buckeye. ^E. flava, Ait. 



Leaves, compound (hand-shaped ; leaflets, usually five, 

 sometimes seven) ; opposite ; edge toothed. 



Outline of leaflet, long oval, long egg-shape, or long 

 reverse egg-shape. Apex, taper-pointed. Base, 

 pointed. 



Leaflet, four to nine inches long, one to three inches wide, 

 usually minutely downy beneath. 



Flowers, pale yellow. April, May. 



Fruit, two to two and one half inches in diameter, rounded. 

 Husk, not prickly, but uneven. Nut, one or two in 

 a husk, large and brown. 



Found, from Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, southward 

 along the Alleghany Mountains to Northern Georgia 

 and Alabama, and westward. 



A tree thirty to seventy feet high. Its wood is light 

 and hard to split. With the other species of the same 

 genus it is preferred, above any other American wood, for 

 the making of artificial limbs. 



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