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use for weather work. Famous for shedding its bark as well as its leaves. Leaves 4 to 9 inches long. Canada to the Gulf. Red-Bud or Judas Tree (Cercis cana- densis) Small tree of bottom lands, rarely 50 feet high ; so called from its abundant spring crop of tiny rosy blossoms, coming before the leaves, the latter 2 to 6 inches broad. "Ju- das tree" because it blushed when Judas hanged himself on it (Keeler.) Its wood is dark, coarse and heavy.