LARGE BUCKEYE. 
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laterally. The wood is fine-grained and of a reddish hue ; but the inferior 
size of the tree forbids its use in the mechanical arts. 
This species of Cherry Tree offers the same remarkable peculiarity with, 
the Canoe Birch, of reproducing itself spontaneously in cleared grounds, 
and in such parts of the forests as have been burnt, which is observable in 
spots where fire has been kindled by travellers. 
Of all the native species of North America, the Red Cherry Tree bears 
the greatest analogy to the cultivated Cherry Tree of Europe, hence it is 
the most proper for receiving grafts : it has been found difficult to graft the 
European Cherry Tree upon the Wild Cherry Tree. 
PLATE XC. 
A brranch with fruit of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A bunch of floivers. 
LARGE BUCKEYE. 
Heptandria monogynia. Linn. Aceræ Juss, 
Pavia lutea. P. foliis quinatis, cequaliter serratis ; corollis luteis, tetrapetalis, 
viscosis, clausis. 
The Yellow Pavia , or Large Buckeye, is first observed on the Alleghany 
Mountains in Virginia, near the 39th degree of latitude ; it becomes more 
frequent in following the chain toward the south-west, and is most 
profusely multiplied in the mountainous districts of the Carolinas, and of 
Georgia. It abounds, also, upon the rivers that rise beyond the Mountains 
and flow through the western part of Virginia, and the States of Kentucky 
and Tennessee, to meet the Ohio. It is much less common along the 
streams which have their source east of the Alleghanies, and which, after 
watering the Carolinas and Georgia, empty into the Ocean. This species 
may be considered then as a stranger to the Atlantic States, with the 
exception of a tract of thirty or forty miles wide in the Southern States, 
as it were beneath the shadow of the mountains. It is here called Bi 
Buckeye, to distinguish it from the Pavia rubra , which does not exceed 
or 10 feet in height, and which is called Small Buckeye. 
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