192 Trees with Compound Leaves. [Di 



Outline of leaflets, egg-shape or oval. Apex, sharply taper- 

 pointed. Base, slightly heart-shaped or rounded. 

 Leaf-stem, in the autumn takes a violet tinge. 

 Leaf, one and one half to three feet long, about one half 

 as wide. Leaflets, one to two and one half inches 

 long - , of a dull green. 

 Bark of trunk, rough and scaly, separating in small and 

 hard crosswise and backward-curled strips. Branch- 

 lets stout and not thorny. 

 Flowers, in white spikes along the branches. May— July. 

 Fruit, in large curved pods (six to ten inches long, by 

 two inches broad), pulpy within, of a reddish-brown 

 color, flattened and hard. Each pod contains several 

 hard, gray seeds one half of an inch or more in 

 diameter. September, October. 

 Found, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Porter), Wes- 

 tern New-York, westward and southward to Middle 

 Tennessee. Not common. 

 A tree sixty to eighty feet high, or more, with a rather 

 small and regular head. The fewness and the abruptness 

 of its laro;e branches give to it in the winter a dead and 

 stumpy look, whence one of its common names. Its 

 bruised and sweetened leaves are used at the South for 

 poisoning flies. Its seeds were formerly used as a substi- 

 tute for coffee. 



Genus GLEDITSCHIA, L. (Honey Locust.) 



Fig. 98. — Honey Locust, Three-thorned Acacia, Honey 

 Shucks. G. triacanthos, L. 



Leaves, compound ; (even-feathered ; leaflets, ten to 

 twenty-two or more, usually about fourteen), some- 

 times twice-compound ; alternate ; edge of leaf- 

 lets entire as seen above, but as seen below often 

 remotely and slightly toothed. 



