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FIG. 590. HORSE-CHESTNUT (&s:ulus hippocastanum). 



The prickly fruit is a succulent capsule, and when ripe it splits into two or three valves to set free the large seeds 

 known as Conkers. Mountain regions of GREECE, PERSIA, and NORTHERN I.VDIA. 



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