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CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



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minutely pubescent beneath ; the pubes- 

 cent petiole flattish toward the base. 

 Flowers yellow, not spreading. Spring. 

 Fruit globose, uneven but not prickly, 

 2 in. in diameter. Seeds large (1 in.), 1 or 

 2 in number, mahogany-colored ; ripe in 

 autumn. Often a large tree, sometimes 

 only a shrub, 6 to 70 ft. high, in rich woods ; 

 Virginia to Indiana, and southward. Cul- 

 tivated oc- 

 casionally 

 throughout. 



JE. parviflora. 



Var. purpurascens of this species has 

 flesh-colored or dull-purple flowers, and 

 leaflets quite downy beneath. 



5. -2E.scu.lus parviflora, Walt. 

 (LoNG-EACEMED BUCKEYE.) Leaflets 

 5 to 7, ovate, acuminate, serrate, vel- 

 vety with hairs beneath. Flowers 

 white, in long, slender, erect clusters ; 

 July; petals 4, spreading; stamens very 

 long. A beautiful, widely spreading 

 shrub, 5 to 18 ft. high ; from the South- 

 ern States ; often cultivated. Probably 

 hardy throughout. 



GENUS 24. KCELREUTijRIA. 



A small tree with alternate, once to twice irregularly 

 pinnate leaves with many coarsely toothed leaflets. Flow- 

 ers conspicuous, yellow, in terminal panicles. In summer. 

 Fruit rounded, bladdery, 3-celled, 

 few-deeded pods ; ripe in autumn. 



KoelreutSria paniculata, Laxm. Leaf- 

 lets thin and very irregularly toothed. 

 Clusters 6 to 12 in. long, of many ir- 

 regular flowers, y z in. wide ; through 

 the summer. Fruit an ovate, bladdery 

 capsule, ripening in autumn. A fine, 

 small, round-headed tree, 20 to 40 ft. 

 high ; from China. Probably hardy 

 throughout. K. paniculata. 



