JEsculus pavia, 
THE SMALL BUCKEYE. 
Synonymes. 
JSsculus pavia, 
Pavia rubra. 
Marronier pavie, Pavie a fleurs rouges, 
Rothe Rosskastanie, 
Pavia, Marrone di Paw, 
Red-flowered Pavia, Small Buckeye, 
Linn^us, Species Plantarum. 
Elliott, Flora of South Carolina. 
Torrev and Gray, Flora of North America. 
De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Don, Miller's Dictionary. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
France. 
Germany. 
Italy. 
Britain and Anglo-America. 
Engravings. Audubon, Birds of America, pi. lxxxviii. ; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, v., pi. 51 ; and the figures below. 
Specific Characters. Fruit smooth. Corolla 4 petals, that are longer than the stamens. Leaflets 5, ellip- 
tic-oblong, tapered at both ends, and smooth, as is the petiole ; axils of the nerves hairy on the under 
surface of the leaf. De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Description. 
Hg^jgHE Small Buckeye is 
3 t ~Tp H> a slender-growing tree 
J 'H ' or shrub, varying in 
s\^1| height from two to 
twenty feet, in its natural habitat, and some- 
times thirty feet when in a state of cultivation. 
The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, cuneate-ob- 
long, or oval, slightly acuminate, unequally 
serrulate, minutely pubescent, or nearly gla- 
brous, except along the veins beneath. The 
racemes are lax, and generally with ternate 
flowers; the corollas are tetrapetalous, with 
their connivent claws of the length of the 
calyx ; the stamens are seven, and shorter 
than the corolla. The flowers appear in Geor- 
gia and Carolina in March, and a month or six 
weeks later near Philadelphia and New York ; 
and according to Mr. Audubon, they are scent- 
less, but much sought after by humming-birds. 
The fruit resembles that of the common horse-chesnut, but is much smaller. 
Varieties. The variations which are recognized under this form may be de- 
scribed as follows : 
1. JE. p. arguta (P. r. arg-uta, of Loudon.) Sharp-toothed Small Buckeye. 
This variety was introduced into the garden of the London Horticultural Society 
from the nursery of M. Castros, of Bordeaux, under the name of Msculus pavia 
parviflora. It is said to be a handsome small tree, with dark, brownish-red flow- 
ers, differing but little from the iEsculus pavia. The tree in the Society's gar- 
den attained the height of fifteen feet in ten years. 
2. JE. p. sublaciniata (P. r. sublaciniata, of Loudon.) Slightly-cutleaved 
Small Buckeye. The leaflets of this variety are acutely serrated ; in other re- 
spects it differs but little from the species. 
