WATER LOCUST. 
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flourishes, blooms, and yields seed in the climates of London and Paris ; 
but its vegetation is less active than in the south of France. 
PLATE LXXIX. 
A branch with leaves and a thorn of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A pod of th 
natural size. Fig. 2, A seed. 
WATER LOCUST. 
Gleditschta monos ferma. G. ramis subspinosis ; foliolis ovato-oblongis ; legum- 
inibus ovalibus, mucronatis , monospermis. 
This species is plainly distinct from the preceding, especially in the form 
of its fruit, and belongs to a more southern climate; in the Atlantic States 
it is first seen in the lower part of South Carolina. The point at which it 
is found nearest to Charleston is about two miles beyond Slanbridge, at the 
distance of 32 miles. In South Carolina, as well as in Georgia and East 
Florida, where I have myself observed it, this tree, though not very rare, 
is not common, and the traveller sometimes loses sight of it for-whole days, 
in tracts that seem peculiarly favourable to its growth. In the Western 
Country it is found three or four degrees further north, near Kaskaskias in 
the Illinois Country. 
In the southern and maritime part of the United States, this tree is 
designated by no other name than that of Water Locust, and grows only 
in the large swamps that border the rivers, where the soil is constantly wet 
and often inundated at the season of the rising of the waters. It is com- 
monly associated with the Cypress, Large Tupelo, Red-flowering Maple, 
Oyercup Oak, Plane Tree, and Nutmeg Hickory. It is probably found, 
also, united with the same trees, in the impenetrable forests which cover 
the swamps on the banks of the Mississippi. 
The Water Locust is 50 or 60 feet high, and from 1 to 2 feet in diame- 
ter. The bark upon the trunk of the young trees is smooth ; on old stocks 
it is cracked, but less deeply than that of the Oaks and the Walnuts. The 
branches, like those of the Sweet Locust, are armed with thorns, which 
