WINTER KEY TO THE SPECIES OF AESCULUS 



a. Terminal bud about ^ inch long; bud-scales covered with 

 a glaucous bloom, not conspicuously resinous; bark broken 



into thick plates; prickly bur about I inch in diameter 



A. gldbra, p. 199. 



aa. Terminal bud 1-1^/2 inches long; bud-scales conspicuously 

 sticky-resinous, glistening ; bark broken into thin plates ; 



prickly bur about 2 inches in diameter 



A. hippocastanum, p. 197. 



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