. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 2. Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Water or Swamp Locust. Fig. 2446. Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Arb. Am. 54. 1785. Gleditsia moitosperma Walt. Fl. Car. 254. 1788. A tree, with maximum height of about 60°, and trunk diameter of 2*°, the thorns usually simple. Foliage similar to that of the preceding species, but the leaflets thicker, darker green, usually larger, ovate- lance
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 2. Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Water or Swamp Locust. Fig. 2446. Gleditsia aquatica Marsh. Arb. Am. 54. 1785. Gleditsia moitosperma Walt. Fl. Car. 254. 1788. A tree, with maximum height of about 60°, and trunk diameter of 2*°, the thorns usually simple. Foliage similar to that of the preceding species, but the leaflets thicker, darker green, usually larger, ovate- lanceolate or lanceolate in outline, the margins more conspicuously crenulate; racemes drooping, elongated; pod obliquely oval, glabrous, narrowed at each end, slender-stalked, I'-il' long, g"-\2" wide, l-seeded, not pulpy within. In swamps, Indiana to Missouri, South Carolina, Flor- ida and Texas. Wood very hard, bright reddish-brown ; weight per cubic foot 46 lbs. July. 6. GYMNOCLADUS Lain. Encycl. i: 733. 1783. Trees, with bipinnatc leaves, and showy white dioecious or polygamous flowers in ter- minal racemes. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed. the lobes narrow, nearly equal. Petals S (rarely 4), oblong or oval, nearly equal, imbricated, inserted at the top of the calyx-tube. Stamens ID, distinct, shorter than the petals and inserted with them; filaments pubescent; anthers all alike, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary rudimentary, or none in the staminate flowers, sessile and many-ovuled in the pistillate and polygamous ones; style straight. Pod oblong, thick, large, coriaceous, flat, pulpy between the seeds, 2-valved. [Greek, naked-branch.] A monotypic genus of North 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York : Scribne
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