TREES GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



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and appears well in cultivation. 

 In the early spring when it is 

 covered with its yellow flowers 

 it seems to have suddenly be- 

 come quite frivolous. In the 

 southwest the tree is hardly more 

 than a shrub. Its wood is creamy 

 white, strong, and difficult to 

 split. 



A. odd lid ra liybnda, p u r ji 1 e 

 sweet buckeye, is readily dis- 

 tinguished from the preceding 

 species in its season of bloom, 

 as its flowers are purple or dull 

 red. The leaves, also, are very 

 downy on their under surface, and the bark of the tree is lightt 

 in colour. 



.itsiiilus octiiiuira. 



OHIO BUCKEYE. FETID BUCKEYE. {Plate LX XIII.) 



yEsciiliis gldb) ■( X . 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Soap-berry. Spreading: branches, 18-35 _/V<'/, c' Alons^ tie AUi'^hanirs May. 



sleiuier, kicluy. to .lia . a lui ice:,tiva>d. Fruit: Oct. 



Bark : grey; furrowed and se])aratiiig into thin scales; odour, disagreeable. 

 Leaves: palniateiy-conipound ; opposite; with slender petioles and live or seven 

 long oval leaflets, taper-pointed at the apex and base ; unecpiaily serrate; yel- 

 lowish green above, paler below ; almost glabrous at maturity. Flowers: not 

 showy; I^ale yellow giecii ; growing in a short |)anii le ; pubescent. Corolla: 

 with four erect and rather imifoiin petals having claws, /•'niit : two smooth 

 nuts, enclosed in a green round husk with prickles wlien young. 



Although this is not a common tree it has grown so exten- 

 sively in Ohio that the name "the Buckeye State " has been 

 the outcome. It is also hardy in New England. In low, moist 

 ground and river bottom lands it finds its natural habitat. For 

 almost every contrivance of man it sccn.s as though there 



