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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaflets .5, lanceolate, serrulated, tapering to the base, flat, 

 rather plicate, smooth beneath, but pilose in the axis of the veins. Calyx 

 campanulate, obtusely 5-toothed, about the length of the pedicel. Stamens 

 rather longer than the corolla. Superior petal veined. (Don's Mill.) A 

 deciduous tree. North America. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 

 1823. Flowers yellow and red ; May and June, a week earlier than P. 

 flava. Fruit brown ; ripe in October. Leaves with rufous down on the 

 veins on the upper side. Flowers pale yellow, veined with red, disposed in 

 thyrsoid racemes. Capsules unai'med, but the ovary tomentose. 



A tree resembling Piivia flava but smaller. The plant in the Hbrt. Soc. 

 Garden was purchased from M. Catros of Bordeaux, under the name of ^. 

 ohioensis. In the Bot Reg. it is said to be most nearly related to ^, (Pavia) 

 flava, but to differ from it in the flowers appearing a week or 10 days earlier, 

 and in the leaflets being more glabrous, with rufous down on the veins on the 

 upper side, and with hairs in the axils of the veins on the under surface. 



i 4. P. macroca'rpa Hort. 



The long-fruited Pavia. 



Synonyme. JS'sculus Pavta macrocarpa Lodd. Cat., 1830. 

 Engravings. The plate in Arb. Brit., vol. v. ; and our^^. 177. 



Leaves glabrous on both sides. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 

 tree under the middle size. A garden hybrid between 



Spec. Char., S^c. 

 A deciduous 



177. Pivia macrocArpa. 



^'sculus and Pavi/z 'rubra. Height 20ft. to 30ft. Cultivated in 1820. 

 Flowers pale red and yellow, nearly as large as the common horsechestnut ; 

 May and June. Fruit brown ; ripe in October. 



