. 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. The Honey Locusts 537 The wood is hard, close-grained, yellowish brown, its specific gravity about 0-75- 3. CALIFORNIA REDBUD — Cercis ocddentalis Torrey Usually a widely branched shrub, this species sometimes becomes a tree 6 meters tall. It occurs from the coast mountains to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada of Cali- fornia, from the northern part of the state to San Diego county. It has also been found in Diamond
. 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. The Honey Locusts 537 The wood is hard, close-grained, yellowish brown, its specific gravity about 0-75- 3. CALIFORNIA REDBUD — Cercis ocddentalis Torrey Usually a widely branched shrub, this species sometimes becomes a tree 6 meters tall. It occurs from the coast mountains to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada of Cali- fornia, from the northern part of the state to San Diego county. It has also been found in Diamond VaUey, Utah. The twigs are slender, smooth and brown. The leaves are kidney-shaped, usually broader than long, 5 cm. to rarely cm. wide, notched or blunt at the apex, shallowly or deeply heart-shaped at the base, entire on the margin, thick and leathery, bright green, smooth and somewhat shining on both surfaces; the leaf-stalk is slender, 2 to cm. long. The flowers, which appear in March and April, are clustered, on rather long, slender stalks, the bell-shaped calyx usually of a dark reddish color, its teeth short and broad; petals magenta. The pod is flat, oblong, to linear-oblong, 5 to 7 cm. long, purplish, turning brown, tapering at each end and stalked in the Fig. 496. — California Redbud. in. THE HONEY LOCUSTS GENUS GLEDITSIA [CLAYTON] LINNAEUS ULEDITSIA contains about 11 species of trees, usually armed on the trunk and branches with simple or compound thorns. They occur mostly in the warmer portions of the north temperate zone, being most abundant in Asia, and eastern North America, and fossils from the Tertiary formations of Europe have been referred to the genus. The pulp of the pods of the Japanese tree has been used as soap; their wood is of but ordinary value. The leaves are deciduous, evenly bipinnate or merely pinnate, often both on an individual leaf, stipulate; leaflets small, numerous, and scalloped. The flowers are polygamous, small, green
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