234 Trees with Compound Leaves. [E i, n 



Fig. 116. Ohio Buckeye, Fetid Buckeye. ^E. glabra, Willd. 



^E. Ohiotnsis, Michaux. 

 Leaves, COMPOUND (hand-shaped ; leaflets, five) ; OPPOSITE ; 



EDGE TOOTHED. 



Outline of leaflet, oval or long oval. Apex, taper-pointed. 



Base, pointed. 

 Leaflets, three to seven inches long ; one and a half to 



three inches wide. 

 Bark, with a disagreeable odor. 

 Flowers, small, yellowish-white. June. 

 Fruit, about three fourths of an inch in diameter. Husk, 



prickly when young. Nut, smooth. 

 Found, along the western slopes of the Alleghany 



Mountains Pennsylvania to Northern Alabama and 



westward. 



A small, ill-scented tree (eighteen to thirty-five feet 

 high), with wood in quality and use much like that of the 

 Sweet Buckeye. 



Horse Chestnut. \/E. Hippocastanum, L.~\ 

 A very common introduced and cultivated species, 

 native in Northern India. 

 Leaflets, five to seven (usually seven), with ribs straight, 



and brown-woolly when young. 



Flowers, at the ends of the branches ; large ; in large, up- 

 right, pyramid-shaped clusters ; cream-white, spotted 

 with yellow and purple. May, June. 



Fruit, large. Husk, with stiff prickles. Nut, mahogany- 

 colored, with a large, round, whitish scar ; bitter, and 

 said to be somewhat poisonous. 



A compact, rounded tree, of medium size ; very orna- 

 mental when in flower. Its bark has been used as a sub- 

 stitute for cinchona bark in the treatment of intermittent 

 fevers. 



