. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Honey Locust 539 shining, its margins somewhat thickened; it contains i seed, rarely 2; seeds round, flat, brown and shining, about i cm. broad. The wood is very hard, strong, coarse-grained and bright reddish brown; its specific gravity is about 2. TEXAN HONEY LOCUST — Gleditsia texana Sargent This rare and very local tree, is known only from dry bottom lands on the Brazos River, Texas; it has spreading branches bu
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Honey Locust 539 shining, its margins somewhat thickened; it contains i seed, rarely 2; seeds round, flat, brown and shining, about i cm. broad. The wood is very hard, strong, coarse-grained and bright reddish brown; its specific gravity is about 2. TEXAN HONEY LOCUST — Gleditsia texana Sargent This rare and very local tree, is known only from dry bottom lands on the Brazos River, Texas; it has spreading branches but a narrow head, and attains a maximum height of about 36 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm. The bark is thin, close and smooth; the twigs are slender, somewhat zigzag, yellow at first, becoming gray, and they are spineless. The leaves are once or twice pinnate, about 15 cm. long, including the leaf-stalk, which, with the rachis, is slender and hairy at first, becom- ing nearly smooth; the pinnate form has 10 to 15 pairs of leaflets, the bipinnate form 3 to 7 pairs of pinnae, with 8 to 14 pairs of leaflets, the lowest pair of pinnae often reduced to simple leaflets. The leaflets are thick and firm, ob- long to oblong-lanceolate, to cm. long, blunt or pointed at the apex, rounded at the base, deep green and shining above, hairy when young, pale and smooth except along the yel- low midrib beneath. The flowers appear in April and May, in axiUary racemes. The Fig. 498. - Texan Honey Locust. staminate flowers are yellow, in slender hairy often clustered racemes, 8 to 10 cm. long when fully grown; the calyx-tube is bell-shaped, its 5 lobes ovate, pointed, and hairy; the petals are somewhat longer and broader than the calyx-lobes; stamens exserted, the filaments slender, hairy near the base, the anthers green. The fruit is very flat, straight, linear-oblong, 10 to 13 cm. long, blunt at the tipped apex, obliquely rounded at the base, scarcely thickened along the margin,
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