. 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. 54° The Honey Locusts northeastern States. Its maximum height is about 42 meters, with a trank di- ameter of dm. The branches are spreading or somewhat pendulous. The bark is to 2 cm. thick, deeply fissured into broad ridges, which are roughened by persistent brown scales with upturned edges. The twigs are stout, zigzag, with enlarged nodes, thickened at the tip, nearly smooth, becoming greenish red and shining an
. 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. 54° The Honey Locusts northeastern States. Its maximum height is about 42 meters, with a trank di- ameter of dm. The branches are spreading or somewhat pendulous. The bark is to 2 cm. thick, deeply fissured into broad ridges, which are roughened by persistent brown scales with upturned edges. The twigs are stout, zigzag, with enlarged nodes, thickened at the tip, nearly smooth, becoming greenish red and shining and finally brown. The spines become 5 to 15 cm. long, simple or branched, stiff, very sharp, long-pointed and red-brown; they are produced by some trees in the greatest profusion, on others they may be entirely wanting. The winter buds are very small, usually several together. The leaves are pin- nate or bipionate, to 2 dm. long; the leaf- stalk is enlarged at the base, flattened and grooved above, 3 to 5 cm. long; there are 9 to 14 pairs of leaflets on the pinnate form, or 4 to 7 pairs of piimae on the bipinnate forms; the upper pinnae are the largest, 10 to 12 cm. long, the basal ones often reduced to a single leaflet; the leaflets are ovate to lanceolate, varying to eUiptic, to 3 cm. long, blunt at each end, dark green and shining above, yellowish green and sometimes hairy beneath. The flowers appear in May or June, the staminate flowers in short, hairy racemes, with short peduncles; the pistillate are in few-flowered, usually sohtary elongated racemes; the calyx is bell-shaped, imequally lobed, the lobes sharp-pointed and hairy; the petals are greenish, oval to oblong-oval, erect, and longer than the calyx-lobes; stamens 10, exserted, the anthers green; ovary wooUy. The fruit is long-linear, 20 to 30 cm. long, about 3 cm. wide, flat, somewhat curved,and twisted, brown to purplish black and shining, pointed, tapering toward the short-stalked base, the margin thickene
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