JEscutus /lava, 
THE LARGE BUCKEYE. 
Synonymes. 
{ Aiton, Hortus Kewensis. 
JEsculus flava, j Torrey and Gray, Flora of North America. 
Pavia lutea, Michaux, North American Sylva. 
IDe Candolle, Prodromus. 
Don, Miller's Dictionary. 
Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 
Pavie a fleurs jaunes, France. 
Gelbe Rosskastanie, Germany. 
Pavia gialla, Marrone d'India gialla, Italy. 
Yellow Pavia, Britain. 
Large Buckeye, Big Buckeye, Sweet ) United States . 
Buckeye, ) 
Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 91 ; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, v., pi. 55; and the figures below 
Specific Characters. Petioles pubescent, flattish towards the tip. Leaflets 5 7, pubescent beneath, and 
above upon the nerves. De Candolle, Prodromus. 
Description. 
!K2j|HE Large Buckeye, in fa- 
^ '"Tr 1 ci vourable situations, some- 
J j times attains an elevation 
^i^m of seventy or eighty feet, 
with a trunk three or four feet in diameter ; but 
in the southern states it often dwindles down to 
a small shrub, not more than four or five feet 
in height. The leaves are much paler than 
those of the iEsculus pavia, are lanceolate, 
pointed at the summit, 
rowed, and pubescent, 
appear in April and 
able yellow, and 
serrate, slightly fur- 
The flowers, which 
May, are of a light, agree- 
are disposed in upright 
in 
bunches at the ends of the shoots of the same 
season. The fruit is contained in a fleshy, 
oval capsule, about two inches in diameter, 
which is often gibbous, and the surface of 
which, unlike that of the common horse-ches- 
nut, is smooth. Each capsule contains two 
seeds or nuts, of an equal size, flat upon one side and convex on the other. 
They are larger, and lighter coloured than those of the common horse-chesnut, 
and, like them, unfit to eat. 
Variety. M. f. aurantia. Orange-coloured-flowered Large Buckeye. This 
variety diners from the species in the deep-orange and yellow hue of its flowers, 
in its smooth, irregularly-toothed leaves, and more acute divisions of the calyx. 
It grows in the vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Geography and History. The natural habitat of the iEsculus flava is near 
the large rivers in the western states, and along the Alleghanies, from the thirty- 
ninth degree of latitude, in Virginia, to their termination in Georgia. It may be 
considered as a stranger, east of these mountains, with the exception of a tract 
thirty or forty miles wide, situated, as it were, beneath their shadow 
