294 AUTUMNAL LEAVES. 



and sometimes of russet or golden brown. The 

 same leaf may have patches of deep, rich brown, 

 orange, russet and yellow upon green which has 

 not yet disappeared. The autumn colouring 

 usually appears in either spots, splashes, or 

 blotches which affect both the veins and the tissue 

 at the spot where it commences ; and it does not, 

 as in some leaves, affect the veins alone or the 

 adjacent tissue alone. The variation is almost 

 endless upon a single tree. We may see, at one 

 and the same time, deep green leaves, orange, 

 yellow, dark brown, light brown, golden brown, 

 and almost every gradation between them orange 

 leaves with patches or spots of green or yellow ; 

 or green with patches or spots of yellow, orange 

 and brown. The markings are of all sizes and 

 appear in varying parts of the leaf : in the centre ; 

 along on one side of the mid-vein ; at the top, at 

 the bottom, or on either edge ; but all merge into 

 final tints of russet or of light, yellowish brown. 



The White Beam or ' white tree,' though not a 

 very familiar tree, is distinguished by the singular 

 beauty of its autumnal foliage. The fine white 



