. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Xoetiiebx States and Canada. 291 The Water Locust attains a height of 50 or 60 ft. and its short trunk is sometimes 2 or 3 ft. in diameter. It divides usually within a few feet of the ground into several branches forming a bushy rounded top more or less flat- tened above, with contorted spiny branches. Sometimes the trunk also is beset with for- midable great rigid branching thorns. The bark of trunk is thin, firm, rough with small corky excrescences and is
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains, photo-descriptive . Trees. Handbook of Teees of the Xoetiiebx States and Canada. 291 The Water Locust attains a height of 50 or 60 ft. and its short trunk is sometimes 2 or 3 ft. in diameter. It divides usually within a few feet of the ground into several branches forming a bushy rounded top more or less flat- tened above, with contorted spiny branches. Sometimes the trunk also is beset with for- midable great rigid branching thorns. The bark of trunk is thin, firm, rough with small corky excrescences and is sometimes sparingly scaly. It inhabits only deep swamps, the bor- ders of sloughs and low river banks subject to long inundation, in company with the But- ton-bush, Forestiera, Planer-tree, Bald Cypress, Water and Tupelo Gums, various Willows, etc. and is most abundant and of largest size in the lower Mississippi valley. The wood, of which a cu. ft. when absolutely dry weighs lbs., is heavj', hard and strong, of a reddish brown color with thick pale yellow Leaves 5-10 in. long with 5-7 pairs of pinnate or bi-pinnate pinnfe of 5-12 pairs of ovate to ob- long leaflets, usually oblique at base, rounded at apex, finely crenate-serrate, thick and Arm, lustrous dark green above, paler beneath. Flowers appearing in .Tune in slender elongated racemes. Fruit: pods lustrous brown, thin, 1-2 in. long, in pendent racemes, oblique-ovate, pointed at both ends, with long slender stalk, without pulp and containing a solitary (or sometimes 2) flat sub- orbicular yellow-brown seed Y^ in. in diameter. 1. Syn. Glcditsia nionosperma Walt. 2. A. W., V, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hough, Romeyn Beck, 1857-1924. Lowville, N. Y. : Romeyn Beck Hough
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