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ARBORETUM ET FRUT1CETUM BRITANNICUM. 



According to Michaux, the American horserhestnut is commonly a bush or 

 low tree, from 10 it. to 12 ft. in height ; but it is sometimes 30 or 35 feet high, 

 trunk 12 or 15 inches in diameter. He found it only on the banks of the Ohio ; 

 but Torrey and Gray give as its habitats the western parts of Pennsylvania, 

 Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky. The tree in the Hort. Soc. Garden is of equally 

 vigorous growth with the common hor;sechestnut ; the leaves are larger, and 

 of a bright green : on the supposition that this is the JE. ohioensis of Michx. and 

 Tor.Sf Gray, we have no doubt in our own mind that it is only a variety of the 

 common horsechestnut, Dr. Lindley, however, is of a different opinion, con- 

 sidering it as a distinct species. (See Sot. Reg., 1838, t. 51.) 



3. JE. (H.) RUBICU'NDA Lois. The reddish-jtowej-ed ^Esculus, or Horse 



chestnut. 



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Synonymes. JE. cornea Hort., and LindL Bot. Reg. ; JE. r6sea Hort. ; JE, cocclnea Hort. ; JE. 

 Hippocastanum var. rubicundum Schubert \ IE. WatsbmYiwa Sp 

 scharlachrothe Rosskastanie, Get: ; Whitley's fine scarlet. 



avings. Herb. Amat , t. 367- ; Hayne Abbild., t. 22. ; Bot. Reg., 1. 1056., as JE. carnea ; Wats. 

 ndr., 1. 121., as JE. carnea ; the plate of this species in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. v. ; and our 



Identification, Loiseleur Herb. Amat.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 597. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 652. 

 ynonymes. JE. cornea Hort., and LindL Bot. Reg. ; JE. r6sea Hort. ; JE, coccln 

 Hippocastanum var. rubicundum Schubert \ IE. WatsbmYiwa Spach ; Marronier rubicund, Fr. ; 

 scharlac 

 Engravings. 

 Dendr., 

 Jig. 168. 



Spec. Ckar. t fyc. Petals 4, with the claws shorter than the calyx. The 

 flowers are scarlet, and very ornamental ; the leaves of a deeper green than 

 those of any other sort, and they have a red spot at the base of the petioles 

 of the leaflets on the under side. The flowers come out of a dark red, and 

 die off still darker. Fruit prickly. A deciduous tree, below the middle 

 size. ? Hybrid from North America, Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Cultivated 

 in 1820. Flowers red ; May and June. Fruit brown ; ripe in October. 

 It is doubtful whether this tree is a native of North America, or originated 



in British gardens. It passes under different names in different nurseries, 



^S'sculus (Hippoc4stanum) rubictinds. 



as will be seen by our list of synonymes, and may be considered as differing 

 little, if at all, from M. carnea Lindl. It is distinguished from Pav?Vz rubra 

 by its larger and rougher leaves ; and from IE. Hippocastanum by the leaves 



