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GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS, L. Honey Locust. 



Geographic Distribution. 



Borders of streams and intervale lands, in moist fertile soil, 

 usually growing singly or occasionally covering almost exclu- 

 sively considerable areas; less commonly on dry sterile gravelly 

 hills; western slope of the Alleghany mountains of Pennsyl- 

 vania, westward to Ontario and ^Michigan to southeastern Min- 

 nesota, eastern Nebraska and Kansas, and the Indian Territory, 

 and southward to northern Alabama and Mississippi and to the 

 valley of the Brazos river, Texas; attaining its largest size in 

 the valleys of small streams in southern Indiana and Illinois; 

 now often naturalized in the region east of the Alleghany 

 mountains. 



Distriljuiion in ^Test Virginia. — Rather infrequent, along 

 streams on both sides of the Alleghanies. Found on the 

 Bluestone at Spanishburg, ]\Iercer county; on the New 

 river at Hinton, Summers county; on the Great Kanawha 

 at Kanawha Falls, Fayette county; at Charleston on the 

 Kanawha river, Kanawha county; on the Kanawha river 

 near T\'infield. Putnam county; on the Little Coal river, 

 near Madison, Boone county; on the Elk, near Clay, Clay 

 county; near Webster Springs, Webster county; on the 

 Little Kanawha, at a number of places from Glenville, Gil- 

 mer county, to its mouth: on the Monongahela river near 

 MorgantovTi, ^Monongalia county ; and on the South Branch 

 of Potomac near Romney, Hampshire county. Frequently 

 found also along Middle Island creek. Fish creek, Fishing 

 creek and other tributaries of the Ohio. 



Wood. — Hard, strong, coarse-grained, reddish, very durable. 



Uses. — ^^"aluable for posts, cross-ties, hubs and spokes, and fuel. 



ROBINIA PSEUDACACIA, L. Locust. Acacia. Yellow 



Locust. 



Geograp Ji ic D is irih utio n. 



Slopes of the Appalachian mountains, Pennsylvania, to north- 

 ern Georgia; now widely naturalized in most of the territory 

 of the United States east of the Rocky :Mountains, and perhaps 

 indigenous as a low shrub in northeastern and western Arkan- 

 sas and in the Indian Territory; nowhere common; in the Ap- 

 palachian forest growing singly or in small groups: most 

 abundant and of its largest size on the western slopes of the 

 Alleghanies of West Virginia; often spreading by underground 

 stems into broad thickets of small and often sunted trees. 



