LEGUMINOSA.
MobiniaPseudacacia. Common Locust. Pennsylvania and sonthward. Hardlyy found north of the fortieth de gree of latitude except in cultivation. It is chiefly found on the Alleghenies and the mountainous parte 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 need in ship building.
B. decosa. Clammy Locust. Virginia and southward. A smaller tree than the preceding. and much more rare. being confined to The mountains of Georgia and North Carolina.
B. Area-Mexicana. New Mexican Locust. New Mexico and Arizona. A small tree, rarely exceeding twenty feet. Very thorny. Grows in stony ravines at the foot of mountains in New Mexico and Arizona.
Oimya tesota. Palo de Hierro. New Mexico and Ari zona.
Piscidia Ere/Arida. Jamaica Dogwood. South Florida. A tolerably large tree of South Florida; also gi owe in the West Indies. Its blossoms resemble those of the Locust. The wood is heavy, coarse-grained and durable.
Cladrastris tinctoria. Yellow wood. Tennessee and Kentucky. This is one of the handsomest fiuweliog-to ea of the Locust 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 onefoot in diameter. It is well worthy of cultivation.
Sophora affinis. Texas and Southwest.
S. Speciosa. Texas and Southwest. Our two Sophoras are small trees of Texas and New Mexico, seldom over six inches in diameter. They produce an abundance of showy flowers very early in the season. The &Aare spsclosa has evergreeleaves, and beautiful red beans, p which are said to be poisonous.
Gymnocladus Canadensis. Kentucky Coffee-tree. East ern United States. A tall, large and handsome tree, rare in Western 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 .ofthe pads have been used for coffee.
GleMechia 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 sweetish pulp, and have been used in fermenting 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 Stated, 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 south ward. This is a smaller tree than thepreceding, growing in swamps in the Southern States and in the vicinity of the Ohio river. The pods are short, roundish. tad only one-seeded. The tree is thorny. like the Honey Locust. Cercidium m. &•en-bark. Western Texas and Arizona. This is the Palo Verdi of the Mexicans and the Green-barked Acacia of American avelers. The bark is smooth and green on the young t•.e.. 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. miarophylia. Western Texas and Arizona.
Gerais Canadensis. Redbud or Judas Tree. Eastern United States. The Redbuds 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 States.
Proeopis glandulasa. Mesquite. Texas to California. A scrubby, small tree, seldom more than twenty-five to thirty feet high ; sometimes constituting extensiveforests. It produces an abundance of bean-like pods, which con tain a sweet pulp. Both beans and pulp are eaten by Indians and often by whites, but they are used chiefly as food for horses, which eat them with avidity. The wood is very hard and durable, dark brown, and resembles mahogany. Fences made of this timner are very durable. The wounded bark in spring exudes a gum of the same quality as gum arabic.
Blrembocarptis pubescens. Screw-beau. . Texas and westward. This tree is very similar to the preceding, but of smaller size. The pods are two to three inches long, and twisted like a screw. They are eaten by the Colorado Indians. powdered to a coarse meal, and made into a kind of bread. are also good food for the horses. Leuccena Musa. Texas and westward.
Acacia Farneseiana. Texas and westward. Pithecolobium Unguis-Cati Cat's-claw. South Flor ida. In South Florida, mostly a shrub, rarely a small tree. The hark has medicinal properties.