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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



early in the nineteenth century, and in many varieties is cultivated in Europe and occasion- 

 ally in the eastern United States. 



3. Aesculus georgiana Sarg. 



Leaves with slender glabrous petioles 4|'-6' in length, and 5 leaflets oblong-obovate, 

 abruptly acuminate and long-pointed at apex, gradually narrowed and acuminate at base, 

 finely often doubly serrate with rounded teeth pointing forward, sparingly covered early 

 in the season, especially on the upper side of the midrib and veins, with short caducous hairs, 

 yellow-green above, green, glabrous and lustrous or pubescent (var. pubescen.t Sarg.) below, 

 44 '-6' long, 1|'-2|' wide, with a stout orange-colored midrib and 20-30 pairs of slender 

 primary veins; petiolules stout, puberulous early in the season, \'-\' in length. Flowers 



Fig. 635 



opening in April and May I'-l^' long, on slender puberulous pedicels, in broad pubescent 

 panicles, 4 '-6' in length; calyx campanulate or tubular, puberulous, about yV in diameter, 

 red on the upper side, pale yellow on the lower side or entirely red or yellow, 5-lobed, the 

 lobes oblong-ovate, narrowed and rounded at apex, finely serrate on the margins; petals con- 

 nivent, obovate, rounded at apex, gradually narrowed below, those of the superior and 

 lateral pairs very unequal in size, puberulous and glandular on the outer surface, pu- 

 bescent on the inner surface, ciliate on the margins, bright yellow or red, their claws fur- 

 nished on the margins with long white hairs, those of the superior pair as long as the lateral 

 petals; stamens 7, shorter than the petals; filaments villose, especially below the middle; 

 ovary covered with matted pale hairs; styles exserted, villose. Fruit on stout pendulous 

 pedicels, globose, usually 1-seeded, \'-\\' in diameter, with thin light brown slightly pitted 

 valves; seed globose, dark chestnut-brown. 



A tree, 25-30 high, with a trunk 6'-10' in diameter, slender erect and spreading branches 

 and stout glabrous branchlets, orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first 

 appear, becoming light reddish brown in their first winter; more often a large or small 

 round-topped shrub 3-5 tall and broad. Bark of the trunk thin, dark brown, the. sur- 

 face separating into small thin scales. Winter-buds about \' long, with light reddish 



