CLAMMY LOCUST (Robinia viscosa, Vent.). 20 to 40 feet. 

 Slender, bushy tree, often a shrub, with twigs dark, reddish 

 brown, and covered with glandular hairs that exude a sticky 

 substance. Bark dark reddish brown, smooth, thin. Wood 

 heavy, hard, close-grained, brown, with yellow sapwood 

 Leaves 7 to 12 inches long, of 13 to 21 ovate, pointed leaflets 

 soft, downy, silvery beneath, at first, becoming smooth above 

 bright green, with pale, pubescent linings, and clammy along 

 the leafstalks. Flowers rose pink, f inch long, with red, 

 clammy pubescent bracts and calyx, in short, close racemes, 

 axillary. Fruit clustered, thin, narrowly winged, taper- 

 pointed pods, 2 to 3 inches long, containing a row of reddish 

 brown, mottled seeds. Dist.: Mountains of North and South 

 Carolina. Naturalized as an ornamental flowering tree for 

 lawns and parks in Massachusetts and in scattered localities 

 east of the Mississippi River. Also in Europe. 



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