Aesculus glabra Willd.

EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM
! Ronald L. Jones, 1985
HERBARIUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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REVISION OF THE AMERICAN HIPPOCASTANACEAE
Aesculus glabra Willd.
James W. Hardin
»Species 1st. ^scpnis Pallida. ???• '	i Common Buckeye*
Sp. Ch. Leaflets by 5s : corollà' 4-petalled : stamina mostly 7,
twice the length of the corolla: fruit spinous. Pursh. ,
Obs* • This species is abundant throughout the forests in the
rich lands of Kentucky* It is à tree of but ordinary stature, and
for themost part of -crooked growth^ remarkable for thè early
periò&o£its foliation, being the fitst pf-our trees to become green
in ^the spring, and the earliest to cast its leaves in the fall.—The
fruit is a large nUt ofa bright brown colour witha* veiy reijjark-
*31 ¿kblejiilic^n ó®,éye?'whi(?h hag given ’$e Iree itf common nànÉzStis
I* ‘'sometimes- e^ien by cattle*' and dften trithi^fel effects:* Ftowers
4 ®^ut^fe(2Qthof April,, and i|^ r^e^ ^ve^r<|b^tìtiful object:
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