Sylvan Sketches Or A Companion To The Park And The Shrubbery With Illustrations From The Works Of The Poets

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THE Gleditsia triacanthos, or Honey-locust tree, is a native of North America, remarkable for its brilliant green; the leaves are what the botanists term doubly pinnate, or bipinnate, having nine or ten pairs of small leaves, or leaflets, placed opposite, at certain distances, upon a common stalk, which forms the pinnate leaf: of these four or five pairs are placed, in the same regular manner, upon a second stalk, or midrib,-the whole, in botanical language, forming a bipinnate leaf.