THE HORSE-CHESTNUTS OR BUCKEYES. 253 



Buckeye. 



^sculus glabra. 



the attention of those who delight in "aesthetic" 

 color. 

 Ohio or Fetid The Ohio or fetid buckeye is a small 

 tree from 20 to 35 (rarely it is YO) 

 feet high, whose gray bark has a dis- 

 agreeable, rank odor. Its leaf is composed of five, 

 sometimes seven, long, ovate leaflets, 

 which are not broad and abruptly 

 pointed like those of the horse-chest- 

 nut. Their edges are rather un- 

 equally fine-toothed. The flowers 

 are small, not showy, and light yel- 

 low green. The fruit, which is 

 about an inch \ and a quarter or 

 two inches in \ diameter, has 

 prickles on the husk (which in- 

 closes two nuts) when it is 

 young ; otherwise it has a warty 

 appearance. The nut is smooth, 

 and an inch or more broad. 



The Ohio buckeye * grows on 

 river banks and low ground from 

 western Pennsylvania to southern 

 Iowa, central Kansas, and Indian Ter- Ohio Buckeye ; 

 ritory ; southward it extends west of flowers and nut. 



* The extensive growth of this species in Ohio, the " Buckeye 

 State," occasioned that name. 



