OHIO BUCKEYE; FETID BUCKEYE (jEs'culus glabra, Willd.)- 

 20 to 70 feet. Tall tree with small, broad top of spreading 

 branches. Bark ill-smelling, gray, broken into plates; twigs 

 brown, pubescent at first, marked by orange-colored lenticels; 

 buds large, opposite. Wood white, shaded into brown sap- 

 wood, close-grained, light, soft, difficult to split, used for artifi- 

 cial limbs, woodenware and pulp. Leaves opposite, compound, 

 yellow-green, smooth, except along midribs, on the paler, 

 under side, 3 to 6 inches long, of 5 (rarely 7) obovate, 

 tapering, saw-toothed leaflets, set at end of a slender petiole. 

 Autumn color yellow. Flowers greenish yellow, in branched, 

 end clusters, 5 to 6 inches long, in April or May, calyx bell- 

 shaped, petals 4, almost alike, upper one often striped with red, 

 stamens 7, curved, thrust far out, hairy, orange-red; ovary 

 hairy, with prickles thickened at base. Fruit, October; 

 globular, 1 to 1^ inches in diameter, 3-valved husk, prickly 

 when green, containing brown nut, with white patch. Kernel 

 bitter. Dist.: River bottom land, Pennsylvania to Iowa; 

 south to Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma. Abundant in Ohio, 

 the " Buckeye State," 



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