. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 209 HONEY LOCUST. THREE-THORNED ACACIA. HONEY SHUCKS. i^Plate CXI.) Gleditsia triancdnthos. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM ^enna. Irregular. 1i-HoJeei. Western N, J', southward and westward. May, June. Bark: grey and rough, with small scales at the base of the trunk. The young bianclilets reddish brown and having upon them wart-liUe excrescences. Spines: two to four inches long; twice or thrice branched and cur\cd at the base. In very young and old trees they are sometimes absent. Leaves
. A guide to the trees [microform]. Trees; Botany; Arbres; Botanique. TREES GROWING IN RICH SOIL. 209 HONEY LOCUST. THREE-THORNED ACACIA. HONEY SHUCKS. i^Plate CXI.) Gleditsia triancdnthos. FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM ^enna. Irregular. 1i-HoJeei. Western N, J', southward and westward. May, June. Bark: grey and rough, with small scales at the base of the trunk. The young bianclilets reddish brown and having upon them wart-liUe excrescences. Spines: two to four inches long; twice or thrice branched and cur\cd at the base. In very young and old trees they are sometimes absent. Leaves ; com- pound; alternate; with long, downy petioles; abruptly pinnate, or twice pinnate with from ten to twenty-six or more long, oblong leaflets tajjering towards the apex and rounded at the base; entire or slightly toothed; dark green and lustrous above, yellow green below; glabrous; thin. Fio'wers: greenish white; growing in narrow racemes. Calyx: three to five cleft. Corolla: with from three to five narrow, spreading petals. Legimies: nine to twenty inches long; reddish brown; flat; linear; curved and containing l)etween the seeds a sweet substance which has suggested the name of honey locust. It seems as though there were no motion quite as un- dulating and graceful as that of a tree with an abun- dance of fine foliage. This the honey locust has, and about it there is something very interesting. As though to atone for the fact that its leaves are abruptly pin- nate, a growth never as pleasing as when they are terminated by an odd leaf- let, or by a tendril, the end leaflet often again divides itself, and the leaf becomes twice pinnate. In this way it satisfies its desire for a mass of fleecy, light foliage. Growing on the branches just above the axils of. GUditsia triancdnthos. e leaves, or where the leaflets gro vv. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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