Elements of Botany, Plate 15

From Elements of Botany:

"Fig. 1. Æsculus parviflora of Walter. This is a native of the Carolinas and of Georgia. A. A flower, the corolla consisting of four petals, with seven stamens and one style. B. The germ considerably enlarged, with the persistent style, after the fall of the stamens. C. c. The sexual organs of the same plant, showing how, in the early flowers, the stamens exist with only the rudiment, c. of the pistil.--This plant, therefore, in strict propriety, belongs to the class of Polygamia.--D. The pericarp (pericarpium), which is three-valved (trivalve). E. The seed, which is a nut (nux), distinguished by a very large hilum.

"The leaves of this species of Æsculus afford a very good example of that species of compound leaf (folium compositum) which Linnaeus calls digitate leaf (folium digitatum).

"Fig. 2. The flower of the Æsculus flava of Aiton. This is a common tree in many parts of North-America, from the latitude of 40 degrees, southward. It is known by the names of Buck-eye, and Deer's-eye, from some resemblance of its nut to the eye of the common deer. A. The perianth. B. The corolla, which consists of five petals. The stamens are seven in number.

"Fig. 3. The flower of the Æsculus Pavia. A. The perianth. B. The corolla, which consists of only four petals."