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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
being long and slender, and the long narrow leaves being broken 
up into a large number of small oval leaflets, arranged pitmately, 
that is, featherwise. The stipules, which are found at the base 
of the leaf-stalk in many plants, are in this genus converted into 
sharp spines. The flowers, of similar pea-shape to those of the 
Laburnum, are white and fragrant. They are in long loose 
racemes, which droop from the axils of the leaves in May. The 
legumes are very thin, and of a dark-brown hue. 
This was one of the first American trees introduced to 
Europe, and its name of Locust came with it, the missionaries 
believing it must be the tree upon whose fruit, with the addition 
