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brown scales, narrowed, rounded and short-pointed at apex. The common Buckeye of 

 the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina and northern Georgia. 



Distribution. Central North Carolina (Durham and Orange Counties), southward to 

 eastern (Richmond County) and central Georgia; northern Alabama (Madison, Etowah and 

 Tuscaloosa Counties), and near Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. The var. pubescens 

 occasionally arborescent in habit, common in the woods west of Augusta, Richmond County, 

 and in De Kalb, Rabun and Floyd Counties, Georgia, ranging northward to Orange County, 

 North Carolina, and ascending on the Blue Ridge to altitudes of 3000; in northern 

 Alabama. 



X Aesculus Harbisonii Sarg., a probable hybrid between A. discolor var. mollis and A. 

 georgiana, has appeared in the Arnold Arboretum among plants of A, georgiana raised from 

 seeds collected near Stone Mountain, De Kalb County, Georgia. 



A distinct form of Aesculwt georgiana is 



Aesculus georgiana var. lanceolata Sarg. 



Leaves with glabrous petioles 3|'-5^' in length, and 5 lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate 

 leaflets long-acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, and finely glandular-serrate, when the 



Fig. 636 



flowers open early in May thin yellow-green above, pale below, glabrous with the excep- 

 tion of occasional hairs on the under side of the slender midrib and of minute axillary tufts, 

 6'-8' long and \\'-I$' wide; petiolules T V~i' in length. Flowers on stout puberulous ped- 

 icels, bright red, in narrow crowded clusters, 8'-10' long; calyx narrow-campanulate, other- 

 wise as in the type. Fruit not seen. 



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

 branches forming a narrow head, and slender glabrous branchlets orange-brown when they 

 first appear, becoming dark gray-brown and marked by pale lenticels in their second year. 



Distribution. Georgia, rich woods near Clayton, Rabun County. 



4. Aesculus Pavia L. Red -flowered Buckeye. 



Leaves with slender petioles glabrous or puberulous early in the season and 4 '-7' long, 

 and 5 short-petiolulate, oblong-obovate, acuminate leaflets, gradually narrowed at base, 



