254 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR" LEAVES. 



the Alleghany Mountains to northern Alabama. The 

 wood is light and tough. 



The yellow or sweet buckeye is a 

 Yellow or Sweet J 



Buckeye. large tree from 30 to 90 feet high 



sEscvius octandra. (southwestward it is only a shrub 6 



^Eseulus octandra. . . 



ieet high), which grows m rich woods 

 from Allegheny County, Pa., southward along the 

 Alleghany Mountains to the vicinity of Augusta, 

 Ga., and northern Alabama 

 to southern Iowa and Texas 

 its name to the 

 tree does not possess 

 disagreeable odor 

 common to 

 other mem- 

 bers of the 

 family. 



The leaves 

 are composed 



from five tO Seven Sweet Buckeye ; one leaflet, flowers and nut. 



elliptical leaflets 



from four to six inches long. They are sharply and 

 rather evenly toothed, and often a trifle downy along 

 the ribs beneath. They are sometimes shed quite 

 early in September. The flowers are dull yellow.* 



* I have drawn the flower because it is distinctly different 

 from that of the Ohio buckeye ; the calyx is elongated and 



