72 TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



112. Cladrastis lutea (Michx.f.) Koch. Yellow-wood. 



A beautiful tree with pinnately compound leaves, 

 white, wistaria-like flowers in drooping panicles, and 

 pods about 3-4 inches long. The wood is yellow and 

 yields a dye, and the branches are thornless, by which 

 it is easily distinguished from the Black Locust as 

 well as others. The Yellow-wood is one of the rarest 

 trees in North Carloina, being known only from 

 Swain, Clay, Macon, and Cherokee Counties (Pin- 

 chot and Ashe, p. 56). It is fine in cultivation. 



113. Robinia Pseudacacia L. Black Locust. 



A tree with small thorns and with dark, rough or 

 ridged bark. When in bloom a mass of white, pea- 

 shaped, fragrant flowers that hang in clusters like 

 Wisteria; fruit a flat pod. It is a native of the 

 mountains, ascending to 4^00 feet, but in the Pied- 

 mont where it is cultivated, it is often seen around 

 deserted homesteads where it retains possession and 

 multiplies extensively by shoots from the roots. Dates 

 of flowering: April 20, 1903; April 29, 1909; April 

 14, 1910; April 25, 1916. Examples: cultivated trees 

 on the campus south of the Smith building. 



114. Robinia viscosa Vent. Clammy locust.* 



A small tree or shrub, mostly confined to the south- 

 ern part of the mountains, and easily recognized by 

 the sticky twigs and leaf stems, and the rose colored 



* Several other species of shrubby locusts occur in this state, all 

 with rosy or rosy-purple flowers. 



