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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITAKNICUM. 



171- ,E'sculusglabrai>a!!ida. 



Other Kinds of BL'sculus are enumerated in some nurserymen's catalogues 

 but we know of none worth notice, except those already recorded. 



GENUS II. 





Boerh. THE PAVIA, BUCKEYE, or SMOOTH-FRUITED HORSECHEST- 

 NUT TREE. Lin. Syst. Heptandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Boerh. Lugd., t. 260. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 598. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 652. 



Derivation. In honour of Peter Paw, a Dutch botanist, once professor of botany at Leyden. 



Buckeye has reference to the conspicuousness of the hilum of the seed, when taken out of the 



husk. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubular. Petals 4, erect, narrow. Stamens straight. Cap- 

 sules unarmed. (Don's Mill.) Middle-sized deciduous trees or shrubs, 

 natives of North America ; distinguishable from the horsechestnuts by the 

 smoothness of their fruit, and the comparative smallness of their flowers, 

 which have their petals erect and narrower. 



Leaves palmate, with 5 7 leaflets, smooth. Flowers small, with erect 

 and narrow petals. Buds blunt, not covered with resin. There are three 

 species, and several varieties or hybrids, in British gardens. 



Distinguished from the common horsechestnuts, by being smaller and 

 smoother in all their parts. There are probably only three aboriginal species ; 

 but there are several beautiful garden varieties, or hybrids. Culture the same 

 as for the common horsechestnut. 



J. P. RU^BRA Lam. The red-lowered Pavia. 



Identification. Lam. Illust. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 598..; Don's Mill., 1. p. 653. 



Synonymes. ^B'sculus Pav?a Lin and Tor. & Gray; JE. Pavz'a var. rubra Hayne Dcnd. p. 44.; 



Pavm parvifl6ra Hart. ; small Buckeye, Amer. ; Marronier Pavie, or Pavie a Fleurs rouges, Fr. ; 



rothe Rosskastanie, Ger.\ Marrone di Paw, Ital. 

 Engravings. Lam. Illust., t.273. , Hayne Abbild., t. 21. ; Wats. Dend., 1. 120. ; Krause, t. 55. ; the 



plate of the tree in Ajb. Brit., 1st edit.* vol. v. ; and our fig. 173. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Corolla of 4 petals, that are longer than the stamens. 

 Leaflets 5, elliptic-oblong, tapered to both ends, and smooth, as is the 

 petiole ; axils of the nerves hairy on the under surface of the leaf. (Dec. 

 Prod.) A slender-growing tree. Virginia and Carolina, on mountains. 

 Height 10ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1711. Flowers brownish scarlet ; 

 May and June. Fruit brown ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves brown. 

 Naked young wood reddish brown. 



