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partakes of that quality. The tree is of less vigorous growth than JE. 

 rubicunda; and the shoots take a more upright direction. It appears to 

 lose its leaves sooner than most of the other sorts. There is a tree of 

 it in the London Horticultural Society's Garden. Plants, in the London 

 nurseries, cost 3s. Gd. each. 



^ 5. M. (H.) pa'llida WiM. Tloee ^ale-flowered ^sculus, or Horsechestmit. 



Identification. Willd. Enutn., p. 406. j Hayne Dend.,-p.44. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 597.; Don's Mill., 1. 



p. 652. ^ ,v , 



Synonyme. Gelbliche Rosskastanie, Ger. 

 Engravhtgs. Hayne Abbild., t. 25. ; and our^. 134. 



Distirict. Char., Src Petals with the claws shorter than the calyx. Stamens 

 twice as long as the corolla. Flowers greenish yellow or whitish, A native 

 of North America, in the forests of Kentucky, introduced in 1812. This 

 sort so closely resembles JE. glabra as to leave no doubt in our mind of its 

 being essentially the same. It is of somewhat more robust growth, and the 

 leaves are, perhaps, not quite so smooth. The tree in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, in 1834, measured 12 ft. in height, after having been 8 

 years planted ; the diameter of the trunk was 3| in., and of the head 7 ft. 



6. jE. (H.) Lvo'n// Hort. Lyon's iEsculus. 



Plants of this species, or variety, are in the garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society ; but they are so small, that it is difficult to say what they will 

 ultimately prove to be. 



App. i. Othei' Sorts or Varieties of lE/sculus. 



In consequence of this genus ripening its seeds freely, and admitting of cross-fecundation with the 

 genus P^vza, several varieties have, within these few years, been raised by British cultivators ; and, 

 indeed, there seems no limit to the number which may be raised by these means. In the Fulham 

 Nursery are, Whitley's fine scarlet, which seems little, if at all, different from JE. rubicunda; JE. 

 americana, which also differs little from M. rubicunda ; and several other varieties, which will be 

 noticed in our appendix to the genus P^via. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xi. p. 248.) In the garden of the 

 Jjondon Horticultural Society are the following names : — iE. //. mc\sum, M. H. prce^cox, M. H. tor- 

 tudsum, and JE. H. mgrum ; but the plants to which they are applied arc all quite small and young. 

 It may be worth while to remark, that purchasers of the different varieties should always take care 



