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Family HIPPOCASTANACE^ 



AESCULUS Linnaeus" 



Aesculus glabra Willdenow. Ohio Buckeye. 



Range. — From Pennsylvania (western slopes Allegheny Mountains) to north- 

 ern Alabama (Tennessee River Valley and mountains) and west to southern 

 Iowa, northeastern Kansas, Missouri, and southeastern Nebraska. 



NAMES IN USE 



Ohio Buckeye (Ga., Ark., Mo., Ohio). Stinking Buckeye (Ala., Ark.). 



Buckeye (Pa., Ky., Mo., 111., Ind., American Horse Chestnut (Pa.). 



Ohio, Iowa, Kans.). Smooth Buckeye (lit.). 

 Fetid Buckeye (W. Va.). 



Aesculus glabra pallida Kirchner. Ohio Buckeye. 



Range. — Iowa (Warren and Boone Counties); Missouri (Marion, Stone, and 

 Barry Counties); Arkansas (Washington County). 



NAME IN USE 



Ohio Buckeye 



Aesculus glabra buckleyi Sargent. Ohio Buckeye. 



Range. — Missouri (near Courtney, Jackson County); Kansas (vicinity of 

 Manhattan); Mississippi; Ohio. 



NAMES IN USE 



Ohio Buckeye. Sevenleaf Buckeye (lit.). 



Aesculus glabra leucodermis Sargent. Ohio Buckeye. 



Range. — Eastern Texas and Oklahoma; Arkansas; southern Missouri. 



NAMES IN USE 



Whitebark Buckeye (lit.). Ohio Buckeye. 



X Aesculus mississippiensis Sargent. Hybrid. 



Range. — Mississippi (vicinity of Brookville, Noxubee County). 

 Note on nomenclature. — Supposed to be a hybrid between Aesculus glabra 

 Willdenow and Aesculus pavia Linnaeus. 



X Aesculus arnoldiana Sargent. Hybrid. 



Range. — Originated in cultivation in the Arnold Arboretum, where it is 

 represented by a single tree. 



Note on nomenclature. — Supposed to be a hybrid between Aesculus glabra 

 Willdenow and Aesculus hybrida de Candolle. 



Aesculus neglecta Lindley. 



Range. — Originally described in 1826 from a tree, growing in the garden of 

 the London Horticultural Society, Chiswick, England, which had been purchased 

 from Monsieur Catros, Bordeaux, France, under the name " Aesculus ohioenis." 

 Two trees, planted over 100 years ago, now growing at Eleutherean Mills (about 

 4 miles from Wilmington), Del., are supposed to be from seeds gathered, some 



,s Britton and Shafer (North Am. Trees, 658, 1908) have admitted the Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippo- 

 eastanum Linnseus), a native of Asia, as naturalized in eastern United States, where it has been long and 

 extensively cultivated for shade and ornament. This is an interesting fact, although the writer ha/ not 

 yet observed the tree growing spontaneously. 



