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ny-seeded, tne upper or seed-bearing suture margined. Trees or shrubs. 
Liahes petiolulate, ees base of the leaf-stalks enlarged, covering 
the buds of the ensuing 
LR. Pseud-aca cia, L. Hate virgate, armed with —— wet ire : 
leaflets oblong-ovate ; race je ooping ; legumes 
ALSE-ACACIA ROBINIA. site 
sane -60 © wedge gece oar ae ti Leaflets 3 or 4~ — 
ini it 
the base, with 2 to sta ee itdlemat 96 inches ong” Ooroag 
3 im 
ee forests ; ches long, to Arkansas. Fl. May-June. Fr. September. 
Obs. The Locust-tree, though ee tee in the sna and 
Eastern States, is only truly i ndigenous in the Western and Southern 
portions of the Union. It attains its prin perfection in Kentucky 
ennessee, where it reaches to the height of 90 feet, with a diameter 
of 4 feet. The timber is one of the most valuable, whether for strength 
or eel ; in — quality it ranks but little below the oak, 
while its resistance to decay, even when exposed to the most destructive 
, exeeed of the wood of any other of our forest-trees. It 
is largely employed in pee building, and is prefer y other wood 
for a he as the pins are called which fasten the planks to the frame 
rail- or sl , &e., it is invaluable. 
nted as an 
habit, and i is highly—even oppressi ant, when in flower. The 
vantages attending its culture about dwellings are, 
with which its b are broken by the winds, the many suckers its 
send up, and numerous insects that live upon it. , 80 
many insects prey upon this tree, that in some localities it seldom attains 
any great size. It that when p losely, so as 
to form Locust hey are much less liable to the attacks orms 
than w hey gro Cc ing the value of the timber and 
the rapidity of its growth, even on light and poor land, the culture of 
e Locust is w f much more attention than it has yet received at 
the hands of our farmers. The Clammy Locust (R. visco’sa, Vent.) is 
inferior in size and value; it has the brane hes-clesiey} 3 with visci wrther South, 
flowers. 
become troublesome if not kept cy egy 
6. WISTA’RIA, Nutt. Wisrarta. 
[Named for Prof. Caspar Wistar, of the University of Pennsylyania.] 
panulate, somewhat 2-lipped ; the up of 2 short teeth 
be foe 3 longer ones. " Standard large, wh all _base 
