See also:

• MESQUITE, or HONEY LOCUST

MESQUITE, or See also:

• HONEY (Chin. me ; Sansk. madhu, mead, honey; cf. A.S. medo, medu, mead; Gr. p Xt, in which 0 or b is changed into X; Lat. mel ; Fr. miel ; A.S. hung ; Ger. Honig)

HONEY See also:

• LOCUST

LOCUST  , in See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, a See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree, native of the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• UNITED

United States and extending southwards through See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico and the Andean region to' See also:

• CHILE, or CHILI (derived, it is said, from the Quichua chin , cold, or tchili, snow)

Chile and the See also:

• ARGENTINE

Argentine See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic . It is known botanically as Prosopis juliflora, and belongs to the natural See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• LEGUMINOSAE

Leguminosae (suborder Mimoseae) . It reaches 40 or 50 ft. in height with a See also:

• TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk usually not more than 6 to 12 in. in See also:

• DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter, and divided a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance above the ground into numerous irregular' crooked branches forming a loose straggling See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head . The remarkable development of its See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root in relation to See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply renders it most valuable as a drys-See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country plant; the root descends to a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• DEPTH

depth in See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of water, and does not See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch or decrease much in diameter till this is reached . It can thus flourish where'. no other woody plant can exist, and its presence and conditoli afford almost certain indications of the depth of the water-level . When the plant attains the See also:

• SIZE

size of a tree, water, will be found within 40 or 50 ft. of the See also:

• SURFACE

surface; when it grows as a See also:

• BUSH

bush, between 5o or 6o ft.; while, when the roots have to descend below 6o ft., the stems are only 2 or 3 ft. high . These woody roots supply valuable See also:

• FUEL (O. Fr. feuaile, popular Lat. focalia, from focus, hearth, fire)

fuel in regions where no See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood of fuel value is produced above ground." The leaves are See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound, the main See also:

• AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis bearing two or sometimes four secondary axes on which are See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne a number of pairs of narrow bluntish leaflets . The See also:

• MINUTE
• MINUTE (Lat. minutes, small; minuere, to make less)

minute greenish-See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white fragrant See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers are densely crowdedon slender cylindrical spikes from ri to 4 in. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long; the long narrow pods are constricted between the seeds, of which they contain from ten to See also:

• THIRTY

thirty surrounded by a thick spongy layer of sweet pulp . The wood is heavy, hard and See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close-grained, but not very strong; it is almost indestructible in contact with See also:

• SOIL

soil, and is largely used for fence-posts and railway ties . The ripe pods supply the Mexicans and See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians with a nutritious See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food; and a See also:

• GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in

gum resembling gum arabic exudes from the See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem . An allied See also:

• SPECIES

species Prosopis pubescens, a small tree or tall See also:

• SHRUB

shrub, native . of the and regions of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-western United States, is known as the See also:

• SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl

screw-See also:

• BEAN (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Bohne)

bean or screw-pod See also:

• MESQUITE, or HONEY LOCUST

mesquite from the fact that the pods are See also:

• TWISTED

twisted into a dense screw-like See also:

• SPIRAL

spiral; they are used for See also:

• FODDER

fodder and are sweet and nutritious, but smaller and less valuable than those of the mesquite . For a See also:

• FULLER, ANDREW (1954-1815)
• FULLER, GEORGE (1822—1884)
• FULLER, M
• FULLER, MARGARET, MARCHIONESS
• FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON (1833-1910)
• FULLER, THOMAS (16o8-1661)
• FULLER, WILLIAM (1670--c. 1717)

fuller See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of these trees see See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Sprague See also:

• SARGENT, JOHN SINGER (1856– )

Sargent, See also:

• SILVA, ANTONIO JOSE DA (1705–1739)

Silva of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• AMERICA

America, iii. p .

99 (1892) .