88 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
1. AS’CULUS, L. Horse-cuesrnvt. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, without stipules ; leaflets to pen- 
ninerved. Flowers unsymmetrical, in large showy terminal thyrsoid 
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panicles or racemes, often a aot ent x of 5 connected sepals. 
Petals 5 (or sometimes 4, by the supp the lower one), un- 
al. Sta 8. Ovary 3-celled ; yas united into one. Frua 
subglobose coriaceous capsule, echinate or erbatits mostly Lcelled y 
ry by abortion, large, subglobose, bir a sooth shining reddish- 
wn coat 4 broad paler “hilum, des albumen ; cotyledons 
very thick and fleshy, gh ae cobering or ape together, remaining- 
under Aap in otan 
1. &. Hie a ou ts in sevens, obovate-cuneate, acute, 
dentate ; rohan 5. me Se fruit prickly. 
Horse-cuestnut Ajscunvus. Horse-chestnut. 
Fr Maronnier d’ Inde. Germ. Die Rosskastanie. Span. Castaiio de 
Indias. 
Stem 30- 0 feet high, and 1-2 feet in diameter, with numerous 1 beogssaergen, rather 
erect aanea iflets 4-6 or 8 inches long 4-6 inches long. Flowers 
pris = ochroleucous 2 bbs red spots and tiene of yellow. 
Cultivated. Nativ Fl. May. Fr. Oct. 
Obs. This ornamental tree (which is often called English Horse Chest- 
nut, because it came to us by way of Exglanicetit which originally 
came from Northern India—) has not been as generally introduced as it 
deserves to be. It is symmetrical int handsome, mais although of slower 
me others, it is, in my opinion, well worth waiting for— 
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—_ shoots, or branches of each year, complete their development, and 
come to a full stop, early in the summer,—the residue of the season being 
requisite to harden and prepare them o endure the succeeding vies 
but during the past summer (1858) it has beet, in some localities, badly 
infested by them. In Philadelphia, numerous fine imens were com- 
pletely bigs sl of their foliage and pr obably by the fare vigor of the ~ 
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trees m ered flowering Horse-chestnut (42. ruBIcU 
and carne of the hortoaltariats) is probably a a variety of this; it is a 
smaller tree and exceedingly beautiful when in flowe 
2. HE. Pa’via, L. Leafiets 5; calyx tubular; petals 4, erect and con- 
Sialic et Ima than th eral 
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