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2. GLEDITSIA. Tue Honey Locusts. 
(Named in honor of John Gottlieb Gleditsch, a German botanist.) 
Leaflets lanceolate-oblong; thorns many, long and usuaily 
forked; pods linear, seeds in a sweet pulp............. 1 G. triacanthos. 
Leaflets ovate-oblong; thorns few and usually simple; 
pods oval, pulpless, 1 or 2 seeded................... 2 G. aquatica. 
1. Gleditsia triacanthos Linneus. Honry Locust. THORN 
Tree. Plate 103. Bark fissured, gray brown to almost black; 
twigs reddish to greenish-brown, armed with stout spines; leaves 
pinnate or twice pinnate, hairy when expanding, practically glab- 
rous at maturity; flowers appear in May when the leaves are about 
half grown, inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, the staminate in clustered 
racemes, the pistillate usually in few-flowered racemes, rich in 
honey, and their appearance will be announced by the hum the 
swarm of insects make visiting them; fruit a flat, linear twisted 
pod, 20-40 cm. (8-16 inches) long, with several seeds. 
Distribution. Southern Ontario east to the Alleghany mount- 
ains, south to northern Alabama and Mississippi and west to 
eastern Nebraska, Kansas and Texas. It is found in sparing num- 
bers in all parts of the State. In the northern part it is confined 
generally to the borders of streams, while in the southern part of 
the State it is frequently found on the top of the wooded hills. In 
Gibson, Knox and Posey Counties it is generally frequent or common 
on the borders of ponds and sloughs. It is usually a tree of medium 
size, though in the southern part of the State it grows to be a large 
tree. 
The published records of the distribution are as follows: Cass 
(Hessler); Clark (Baird and Taylor) and (Smith); Daviess (Clem- 
ents); Dearborn (Collins); Decatur (Ballard); Delaware (Phinney); 
Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne (Phinney); Fayette (Hessler) ; 
Fountain (Brown); Franklin (Meyncke); Gibson (Schneck); Ham- 
ilton (Wilson); Jay (M’Caslin); Jefferson (Barnes), (Coulter) and 
(Young); Knox (Ridgway) and (Thomas); Kosciusko (Coulter); 
Marion (Wilson); Miami (Gorby); Monroe (Blatchley); Noble (Van 
Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Posey (Schneck); Putnam (MacDougal) ; 
Steuben (Bradner); Tippecanoe (Coulter); Vigo (Blatchley); Wayne 
(Petry and Markle). 
Additional records are: Knox (Schneck); Montgomery (Evans); 
Tippecanoe (Dorner); Fountain, Posey, Vermillion and Wells 
(Deam). 
Economic uses. Wood heavy, hard, strong, coarse-grained, 
takes a good polish, reddish-brown. It is claimed to be very dur- 
