Robinia pseudacacia, 

 THE COMMON LOCUST-TREE. 



Synonymes. 



Robinia pseudacada, 



Robinia pseudo-acacia, 



Robinier faux-acacia, Acacia blanc, Aca- ) 

 cia commiin, Acacia des jardiniers, > 

 Carouge des americains, ) 



Genieine Acacie, Schotendom, 



Acacia falsa, Acacia, Pseudacacia, Robinia, 



Acacia falsa, Algarrobo americano, 



Acacia bastarda, 



Virginian Acacia, False Acacia, Bastard 

 Acacia, Locust-tree, 



Yellow Locust, 



Black Locust, 



Red Locust, Green Locust, White Locust, 



LiNNJEtJS, Species Plantarum. 



De CANDOLr-E, Prodromus. 



Lamarck, Illustration des Genres. 



Du Ha.mel, Traite des Arbres et Arbustes. 



Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum. 



Selby, British Forest Trees. 



Torrey 4N0 Gray, Flora of North America. 



Miciiaux, ^^orth American Sylva. 



France. 



Germany. 

 Italy. 

 Spain. 

 Portugal. 



Britain. 



State of Maine. 



Western States. 



Other farts of the United States. 



Derivations. This species, when first introduced into Europe, was supposed to be the Egyptian acacia, (Acacia vera,) hul 

 was afterwards conlradislinclively named False Acacia. It was named Lucust-tree by the missionaries, who were amon? the 

 early collectors of trees, and who fancied that it was the tree that supported St. John in the wilderness. The word Carouge, ia 

 the French name for carob bean, the locust-tree of Spain ; which, being also indigenous to Syria, is probably the true locust, 

 mentioned in the New Testament. The German name, Schotendorn, is compounded of schole, a pod or legume, and dorn, 

 a. thorn, having reference to the pods and spines which this species bears. 



Engravings. Michaux, North American Sylva, pi. 76 ; Audubon, Birds of America, pi. cix. ; Loudon, Arboretum Britan- 

 nicum, v., pi. 83; and the figures below. 



Specific Characters. Prickles stipular. Branches twiggy. Racemes of flowers loose and pendulous ; and 

 smooth, as are the legumes. Leaflets ovate. The flowers are white, and sweet-scented ; the roots 

 creeping, and their fibres sometimes bearing tubercules. D& Candolle, Prodromus. 



foliage and flowers, 



Description. 



SD^^HE Robinia pseudaca- 

 h H i^ cia, from the valuable 

 LI ^ properties of its wood, 

 m and the beauty of its 

 ranks among the first trees 

 of the American forests. In favourable situa- 

 tions, it attains a height of eighty or ninety 

 feet, and sometimes exceeds four feet in diam- 

 eter ; but ordinarily, it does not surpass half of 

 these dimensions. On the trunks and large 

 limbs of old trees, the bark is very thick, and 

 deeply furrowed, but on young trees, not more 

 than two or three inches in diameter, it is 

 armed with strong, hooked prickles, which dis- 

 appear altogether as they grow old ; and in 

 some varieties they are wanting even when 

 young. These prickles are only attached to 

 the bark, like those of the common rose, or the 



