CHAPTER II. 
DESCRIPTIONS OE THE EOREST TREES OE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 
AND OREGON. 
iEscuLUS Californica, Nutt. The California Buckeye. 
M. Californica, Nutt. Torr. & Gray , Flor. 1 , p. 251. 
M . Californica, Nutt. Sylva, 2, p. 69, t. 74. 
Fig. 1. Leaves and flowers of JE. Californica , J natural size, and a dower of the natural size. 
Description .—A shrub, or low spreading tree ; leaflets 5, lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, 
narrowed toward the rounded base, serrulate, glabrous, glaucous, or colored below ; flowers 
large in a dense thyrsus, six inches long by three in diameter ; petals rose-colored, spreading 
widely, shorter than the stamens; calyx unequally 5-parted; stamens 5-6; fruit large, 
spheroidal, somewhat pointed, slightly tuberculated. 
The Californian buckeye grows abundantly in most parts of the Sacramento valley, par- 
