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the attention of those who delight in "aesthetic' 

 color. 



Ohio or Fetid The Ohio or fetid buckeye i> a small 



Buckeye. tree from 20 to 35 (rarely it is T<») 



^sculus glabra. f j. , ^ j^.j. ^ . R ^ 



agreeable, rank odor. Its leaf is composed of five, 



sometimes seven, long, ovate leaflets 

 ►which are not broad and abruptly 

 pointed like those of the horse-chest- 

 nut. Their edges are rather un- 

 equally fine-toothed. The flowers 

 are small, not showy, and light yel- 

 low green. The fruit, which is 

 about an inch and a quarter or 

 two inches in diameter, has 

 prickles on the husk (which in- 

 closes two nuts) when it is 

 young ; otherwise it has a warty 

 appearance. The nut is smooth, 

 and an inch or more broad. 



The Ohio buckeye * grows on 

 river banks and low ground from 

 western Pennsylvania to southern 

 Iowa, central Kansas, and Indian Ter- Ohio Buckeye; 



. .. one leaflet, 



ntory ; southward it extends west 01 flowers and nut 



* The extensive growth of this species in Ohio, the " Buckeye 



State," occasioned that name. 



