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qualifications the following lists are perhaps as accurate 
as can be made. The poet summarizes the matter cor- 
rectly when he speaks of 
‘* Autumn beaming o’er the yellow woods,”’ 
for that is the color assumed by the great majority of 
species, as will be seen below; the yellows are of all 
shades, the first group containing only those in which 
it is purest : 
BRIGHT YELLOW 
Tulip-tree Yellow-wood Osage orange 
Cucumber-tree Wild black cherry Black walnut 
Ailanthus Wild red cherry Chestnut 
Striped maple Scarlet thorn Common aspen 
Judas-tree Shadbush Large-toothed aspen 
Kentucky coffee-tree Mulberry Balsam poplar 
PALE OR RUSTY YELLOW 
Basswood Choke-cherry The birches 
Silver maple Papaw Hop-hornbeam 
Norway maple Persimmon Bur oak 
Ash-leaved maple Alternate-leaved dog- Chestnut oak 
Common locust wood Beech 
Honey-locust Silver-bell-tree Swamp white oak 
Clammy locust Fringe-tree Spanish oak 
Mountain-ash Slippery elm Willow oak 
Witch-hazel Butternut Cottonwood 
Spindle-tree Nettle-tree The poplars 
Hop-tree The hickories 
RED 
White oak Red oak Pin oak 
RED AND YELLOW 
Horse-chestnut Sassafras Sweet viburnum 
Mountain maple Post oak Angelica-tree 
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