THE BUCKEYES 



TREES with ill-smelling bark and soft wood. Leaves palm- 

 ately compound, opposite, large. Flowers perfect, large, 

 showy, in panicles. Fruit a nut; one or two of them in a 

 3-celled, 3-parted husk. 



KEY TO SPECIES 



A. Flowers yellow; leaflets 5 to 7. 



B. Husk spiny or rough; stamens long. 



(JEsculus glabrd) OHIO BUCKEYE 

 BB. Husk smooth; stamens short. 



(JEsculus octandra) SWEET BUCKEYE 

 A A. Flowers white; leaflets 5. 



B. Fruit spiny, globose. (Exotic.) 



(JEsculus Hippocastanum) HORSE CHESTNUT 



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