LEGUMINOS^ 



glabrous, glaucous or bluish below, stipules spiny, strong, sharp, persistent 

 for several years. Autumn tint yellow. 



A deciduous tree, 30-60 ft. ; Branches long, slender, tortuous, zigzag ; 

 Branchlets and spray short; Twigs olive-brown, very brittle; Bark brown, 

 longitudinally furrowed; Buds minute, naked, 2-5 hidden in base of petiole; 

 Wood hard, strong, fine-grained, durable, but liable to crack ; liea?i-wood 

 yellow or greenish. 



Native of N. America; introduced 1640-1646. Generic name in honour 

 of Jean Robin, herbalist to Henry IV. of France, and Professor of 

 Botany at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris ; he received the first seed from 

 N. America in 1601 ; the cultivation was continued by his son Vespasian 

 Robin. 



CLAMMY LOCUST, Robinia viscosa. 



Parks, gardens. May, June. 



Floivers rose, papilionaceous, nearly inodorous, § in. long, in a crowded 

 axillary raceme, glandularly-hispid ; pedicels slender, hairy ; bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, dark red, deciduous ; Calyx dark red, lobes subulate, hairy ; Standard 

 of Corolla with a pale yellow blotch, wings broad ; Fruit a legume, linear- 

 lanceolate, glandularly-hispid, 2-3^ ins. long. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, 7-12 ins. long, leaflets 13-21, ovate, acute, 

 acuminate or mucronate at apex, cuneate or slightly cordate at base, dark 

 green and glabrous above, pale and pubescent beneath, li 2 ins. long; petioles 

 and petiolules glandularly-hispid. 



A deciduous tree, 20 40 ft.; Branches slender, spreading; l\dgs reddish- 

 brown, glandularly-hispid, clammy, viscid ; Bark smooth, brown tinged with 

 red ; Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, brown. 



Introduced from N. America, 1797. 



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