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Robinia Pseudacacia. Common Locust. Pennsylvania and southward. Hardly found north of the fortieth de gree of latitude except in cultivation. It is chiefly found in the Alleghenies and the mountainous parts of Ken tucky and Tennessee. It is a beautiful tree, attaining a height of fifty feet and upward. The wood is hard, com pact, and very durable, much used in ship building.
R. viacosa. Clammy Locust. Virginia and aouthward. A smaller tree than the preceding, and much more rare, being confined to the mountains of Georgia and North Carolina.
B. Neo-Meccicana. New Mexican Locust. New Mexico and Arizona. A small tree, rarely exceeding twenty feet. Very thorny. Grows in stony ravines at the foot of mountaina in New Mexico and Arizona.
Olneya tesola. Palo de Hierro. New Mexico and Ari zona.
Piscidia Erythrina. Jamaica Dogwood. South Florida. A tolerably large tree of South Florida; also grows in the West Indies. Its blossoms resemble those of the Locust. The wood ia heavy, coarse-grained and durable.
Cladrastris tinctoria. Yellow wood. Tennessee and Kentucky. This is one of the handsomest flowering-trees of the Lecost kind. It grows chiefly in the mountainous regions of Kentucky and Tennessee. The wood is yellow, and has been used in domestic dyeing. The tree rarely exceeds forty feet in height and one foot in diameter. It is well worthy of cultivation.
Sophora alinis. Texas and Southwest.
S. Speciosa. . Texas and Southwest. Our two Sophoraa are small trees of Texas and New Mexico, seldom over six inches in diameter. They produce an abundance of ehowy flowera very early in the season. The Sophora speciosa has evergreen leaves, and beautiful rad beans, which are said to he poisonous.
Gymnocladus Canadensis. Kentucky Coffee-tree. East ern United Statea. A tall, large and handsome tree, rare in Weatern New York, Pennsylvania, and the States north of the Ohio river; more common in Kentucky and southwestward. The wood is very compact and close grained, and valuable for cabinet work. The large beans of the pods have been used for coffee.
Gleditschia triacanthos. Honey Locust. Eastern United States. This is a large and handsome tree; the trunk and branches generally beset with long and formidable spines, on which account it has been employed as a hedge-plaot. The long pods contain a aweetish pulp, and have been used in lermenting a kind of beer, but are of no practical value. The wood is heavy, and affords excellent fuel, but is not considered durable as a timber. The tree is rare in
the Atlantic States, but rather common west of the Alleg henies, in Tennessee, Kentucky, and the tributaries of the Ohio and Mississippi.
G. monosperma. Water Locust. Illinois and Routh ward. This is a smaller tree than the preceding, growing in swamps in the Southern States and in the vicinity o-f the Ohio river. The pods are short, roundish, end only one-seeded. The tree is thorny, like the Honey Locust.
Carcidiumfloridam. Green-bark. Western Texas and Arizona. This ia the Palo Verdi of the Mexicans and the Green-barked Acacia of American travelers. The hark is amooth and green un the young trees. It is a small, wide spreading tree, with many branches, rarely seen a foot through, and twenty to thirty feet high.
Parkinsonia aculeata. Jerusalem Thorn. Western Texas and Arizona. Mostly a shrub ; quite ornamental, and frequent in cultivation in the region bordering on Mexico.
P. microphylla. Western Texas and Arizona.
Cercis Canaclenais. Redhud or Judas Tree. Eastern United States. The Redhuds are small trees; very orna mental. This species is frequent east of the Mississippi. The next is found principally on the Pacific Coast.
C. occidentalis. Western Redbud. Western United Statee.
Prosopis glandulosa. Mesquite. Texas to California. A scrubby, small trea, seldom more than tweoty-five to thirty feet high ; sometimes constituting extensive forests. It produces an abundance of bean-like pods, which con tain a sweet pulp. Both beans and pulp are eaten by Indiana and otten by whites, but they are used chiefly as food for horses, which eat them with avidity. The wood ia very hard and durable, dark brown, and resembles mahogany. Fences made of this timber are very durable. The wounded bark in spring exudes a gum of the same quality as gum arabic.
Strombocarpus pubescena. Screw-bean. Texas and westward. This tree ia very similar to the preceding, but of amaller size. The pods are two to three inches long, and twisted like a screw. They are eaten by the Colorado Indiana, powdered to a coarse meal, and made into a kind of bread. They_are also good food for tha horses. Leuccena retusa. Texas and westward.
Acacia Parneseiana. Texas and westward. Pithecolobium Unguis-Cati CaCs-claw. South Flor ida. In South Florida, mostly a shrub, rarely a small tree. The bark has medicinal properties.