TREES GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



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West Indies the tree has many relatives, and there when the 

 pods of the species have turned to dark, reddish purple they are 

 called, with a strange attempt at hilarity, *' dead man's fingers." 

 After the seeds have fallen they twist many times in drying. 

 The specimen from which the coloured illustration was painted 

 was found at Jew-Fish Key, in southern Florida. 



The yellow wood of the tree is tinted with red. It has a fine 

 grain and a surface not unlike that of satin. 



TIME OF BLOOM 

 Aprils May. 

 Fruit: Sf/t. 



RED BUD. AMERICAN JUDAS-TREE. {P/a/e LI.) 



Carets Canadensis. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE 



Senna. Btoad., flat head; io-y>/eet. Ontario to N.J. southward 

 branches^ and westivard. 



spreading. 



Bark: purplish grey, the young branches aimost smooth. Leaves: simple; 

 alternate; with petioles which are swollen at each end into a small, round ex- 

 tuberance. Rounded-cordate, the apex tapering into a blunt point and the 

 midrib sometimes projecting into a bristle. I'almately-veined ; entire ; glab- 

 rous or often slightly pubescent on the under side of the veins. Flmoers : 

 handsome ; several growing in sessile, umbel-like clusters on the old wood and 

 appearing before the leaves ; acrid to the taste. Calyx: red. Petals: rosy 

 pink; the wings overlapping or covering the small standard. Pods: small ; 

 shuttle-shaped ; winged along the seed-bearing margin and containing many 

 fiat, puckery-tasting seeds. 



This little tree, for we are most accus- 

 tomed to seeing it small^ is handsome at 

 all seasons of the year ; but it is truly a 

 sight in the early days of spring when it 

 ii radiant with its exquisitely bright and 

 ciieery blossoms. So eager then is the 

 tree to cover itself with them that they 

 sometimes appear even upon its trunk. 

 From a distance many might be allured 

 to its presence and think they were 

 approaching a profusion of deeply-tinted 

 peach blossoms, especially when it grows 

 thorns and flowering dogwood. As soon as the leaves 

 unfold, however, their shape would forbid such an error 

 and the flowers have the papilionaceous corolla of the senna 



carets Canadensis. 



in among the haw- 



