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ents); Decatur (Ballard); Delaware, Jay, Randolph and Wayne 

 (Phinney) ; Fountain (Brown) ; Franklin (Raymond) and (Meyncke) ; 

 Gibson (Schneck); Hamilton (Wilson); Jay (M'Caslin); Jefferson 

 (J. M. Coulter) and (Young); Knox (Ridgway); Kosciusko (Chip- 

 man) and (Coulter) ; Lake (Blatchley) and (Clark) ; Marion (Wilson) ; 

 Miami (Gorby); Monroe (Blatchley); vicinity of New Albany 

 (Clapp); Noble (Van Gorder); Parke (Hobbs); Porter (Blatchley); 

 Posey (Schneck); Putnam (MacDougal); Shelby (Ballard); Steu- 

 ben (Bradner); Tippecanoe (Cunningham); Vigo (Blatchley); Wa- 

 bash (Benedict and Elrod). 



Additional records are : Putnam (Grimes) ; Tippecanoe (Coulter) 

 and (Dorner); Adams, Allen, Brown, Clark, Dearborn, Delaware, 

 Dubois, Hamilton, Jennings, Marshall, Montgomery, Morgan, 

 Noble, Porter, Posey, Steuben, Vermillion, Washington and Wells 

 (Deam). 



Economic uses. Wood strong, hard, close-grained and reddish- 

 brown. Used principally for furniture, office and store fixtures and 

 for the backing of electrotypes. The bark is used in medicine. 

 The fruit is often combined with other fruit to impart a flavor. 



Horticultural value. It is hardy but is somewhat difficult to 

 transplant, grows rapidly in the open while young, does not grow 

 tall but develops a wide oval crown. It has not been used much 

 for ornamental planting and can scarcely be recommended because 

 it is subject to the San Jose scale and tent-caterpillar. It might 

 be permitted to grow along fences because the fruit is an attraction 

 for the birds and if the trees could not be utilized for anything else 

 they could be worked into fence posts. 



C^SALPINlACE^. The Senna Family. 



Leaves simple; flowers pink or rose; seed pod papery. ... 1 Cercis. 

 Leaves compound; flowers not pink; seed pod woody or 

 leathery. 

 Trees with thorns; stamens 3-5, longer than the corolla; 

 pods flat and leathery; seeds about 1 cm. (3^ inch) 



long 2 Gleditsia. 



Trees without thorns; stamens 10, shorter than the 

 corolla; pods swollen, woody; seeds about 2 cm. 

 (1 inch) long 3 Gymnocladus. 



1. CERCIS. The Redbuds. 



(From kerkis, a name given by Theophrastus to a tree supposed to be the modern Cercis). 



Cercis canadensis Linnaeus. Redbud. Fish Blossom. Plate 

 102. Bark of trunk on old trees fissured and sometimes dark 



