254 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



the Alleghany Mountains to northern Alabama. The 



wood is light and tough. 



„ „ The yellow or sweet buckeye is a 



Yellow or Sweet •' 



Buckeye, large tree from 30 to 90 feet high 



Jiscuius flava. (southwestward it is only a shrub 6 



yEsculvs octandra. i • i \ i ■ i 



feet high), which grows m rich woods 

 from Allegheny County, Pa., southward along the 

 Alleghany 'Mountains to the vicinity of Augusta, 

 Ga., and northern Alabama, and westward A 



to southern Iowa and Texas. It owes x^'>?/ 



its name to the fact that the 

 tree does not possess the 



disagreeable odor 



common to 

 other mem- 

 bers of the 

 family. 



The leaves 

 are composed of 

 from five to seven 

 elliptical leaflets 



from four to six inches long. They are sharply and 

 rather evenly toothed, and often a trifle downy along 

 the ribs beneath. They are sometimes shed quite 

 early in September. The flowers are dull yellow.* 



* I have drawn the flower because it is distinctly different 

 from that of the Ohio buckeye ; the calyx is elongated and 



Sweet Buckeye ; one leaflet, flowers and nut. 



