1 88 Trees with Compound Leaves. [Di 



A large, showy tree (sixty to seventy feet high) of 

 remarkably vigorous and rapid growth. It is a native of 

 China. A Jesuit missionary sent its seeds in 1 75 1 to 

 England. In 1784 it was brought from Europe to the 

 United States, and started near Philadelphia. Also 

 about 1804 it was brought to Rhode Island from South 

 America. But the source of most of the trees now found 

 abundantly in the region of New York is Flushing, Long 

 Island, where it was introduced in 1820. It has been a 

 great favorite, and would deserve to be so still were it 

 not for the peculiar and disagreeable odor of its flowers. 



Genus ROBINIA, L. (Locust.) 

 Fig. 96. — Locust, Yellow Locust. R.pseudacacia, L. 



Leaves, compound (odd-feathered ; leaflets, eleven to 

 twenty-five) ; alternate ; edge entire. 



Outline, oval or egg-shape. Apex, rounded. Base, 

 rounded. 



Stem of leaf, smooth, and covering the leaf-bud of the 

 next year. 



Leaflets, very smooth, thin, often slightly tipped with the 

 end of the mid-rib. 



Bark of trunk, dark, rough, and very deeply ridged. The 

 smaller branches and young trunks are armed with 

 strong, triangular prickles, but these disappear when 

 the parts are three to four inches thick. 



Flowers, showy and abundant ; in long, loose clusters 

 drooping from the sides of the branchlets ; white ; 

 and very fragrant. May, June. 



Fruit, a smooth and rather blunt pod, two to three inches 

 long, one and a half inches wide, four- to six-seeded. 

 Seeds, dark brown. September. 



