192 Trees with Compound Leaves. [D i 



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 large 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. triacbnthos, 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. 



