Handbook of Trees of the jSTokthkkn States and Canada. 341 



This is a medium-size tree rarely attaining; 

 a greater lieiglit than To ft. or tliiekiiess of 

 trunk than 2 ft. and often no more than lialf 

 that size. When isoUited it develops a broad 

 rounded umbrageous top of many branches 

 and thick straiglit branchlets. It is confined 

 in its distribution to low moist regions and 

 the banks of streams, and is a tree of hand- 

 some aspect on accoimt of its star shaped 

 clusters of leallets, wliich in autumn turn yel- 

 low before falling. \Nhen leafless in winter tlie 

 distinctly keeled bud-scales with apiculate free 

 tips and rather smaller buds readily distin- 

 guish it from closely allied Yellow Buckye. 

 It is occasionally planted for ornamental pui 

 poses though ill-favored on account of the ill- 

 smelling bark and foliage when bruised and is 

 not as ornamental as the introduced Horse- 

 Chestnut. 



Its light wood weighs when absolutely dry 

 28.31 lbs. per cubic foot, is soft, close-grained, 

 rather tough and easily worked. These quali- 

 ties make it in demand for the manufactur- 

 of artificial limbs, splints and some kinds 

 of wooden-ware, and it is also used for paper- 

 pulp. i The nuts, " buckeyes," are often carried 

 in the pockets of superstitious people with the 

 belief that they will keep away the rheuma- 

 tism. 



Leaves with petioles 4-0 

 or oblong leaflets 3-6 in. Ion 

 base, acuminato. finely iiniM] 

 maturity glabrous on uppci 

 the veins bcnoath and on 

 (April-May) yellowish sriM 



louK and .■)-" ov.lI 

 imcati' and cutire at 

 ly serrate above, at 

 irface. pubescnt on 

 ' petioles. rinwrrx 

 about % in. Ion--. 



mostly unilateral in loose pubescent panicles r. <; 

 in. long: calyx oampanulate : petals of nearly 

 equal length the claws about equally as long as tli" 

 calyx but the lateral pair broader; stamens lon'-'rr 

 than the [ictals. usually 7. with lonr curved fila 

 ments : ovary pubcseent and armed with pi-ickles. 

 Fruit irregularly ol)ovate or subglobose. 1-2 in. 

 long, more or less roughened with prickles ; seed 

 1-1% in, wide. 



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