68 TREES 



The California Buckeye 



Ae. californica, Nutt. 



The California buckeye spreads wide branches from a 

 squat trunk, and clothes its sturdy twigs with unmistak- 

 able horse-chestnut leaves and pyramids of white flowers. 

 Sometimes these are tinted with rose, and the tree is very 

 beautiful. The brown nuts are irregular in shape and en- 

 closed in somewhat pear-shaped, two-valved husks. 



This western buckeye follows the borders of streams 

 from the Sacramento Valley southward; they are largest 

 north of San Francisco Bay, in the canyons of the Coast 

 Range. 



Shrubby, red-flowered buckeyes, often seen in gardens 

 and in the shrubbery borders of parks, are horticultural 

 crosses between the European horse-chestnut and a 

 shrubby, red-flowered native buckeye that occurs in the 

 lower Mississippi Valley. 



THE LINDENS, OR BASSWOODS 



This tropical family, with about thirty -five genera, has 

 a single tree genus, tilia, in North America. This genus 

 has eighteen or twenty species, all told, with representa- 

 tives in all temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, 

 with the exception of Central America, Central Asia, and 

 the Himalayas. 



Tilia wood is soft, pale-colored, light, of even grain, 

 adaptable for wood-carving, sounding-boards of pianos, 

 woodenwares of all kinds, and for the manufacture of 



