SUMMER KEY TO THE SPECIES OF CATALPA 



a. Leaves 5-8 inches long, thick; flowers i l /2 inches across, 

 prominently yellow-spotted; seeds with pointed, fringed 

 wings at each end ; branches rather crooked and straggling ; 



bark thin, separating into thin scales on the trunk 



C. bignonioides, p. 227. 



aa. Leaves 8-12 inches long, thin; flowers 2j/ inches across, 

 not prominently spotted ; seeds with rounded, wide-fringed 

 wings at each end ; branches not crooked and straggling ; 



bark thick, separating into thick scales on the trunk 



C. sfieciosa, p. 225. 



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