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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 



Cucumber-tree Wild black cherry 



Ailanthus Wild red cherry 



Striped maple Scarlet thorn 



Judas-tree Shadbush 



Kentucky coffee-tree Mulberry 



Osage orange 

 Black walnut 

 Chestnut 

 Common aspen 

 Large-toothed aspen 

 Balsam poplar 



PALE OR RUSTY YELLOW 



Basswood 

 Silver maple 

 Norway maple 

 Ash-leaved maple 

 Common locust 

 Honey-locust 

 Clammy locust 

 Mountain-ash 

 Witch-hazel 

 Spindle-tree 

 Hop-tree 



Choke-cherry The birches 



Papaw Hop-hornbeam 



Persimmon Bur oak 



Alternate-leaved dog- Chestnut oak 



wood 

 Silver-bell-tree 

 Fringe-tree 

 Slippery elm 

 Butternut 

 Nettle-tree 

 The hickories 



Beech 



Swamp white oak 



Spanish oak 



Willow oak 



Cottonwood 



The poplars 



White oak 



Horse-chestnut 

 Mountain maple 



Red oak 



Pin oak 



RED AND YELLOW 



Sassafras Sweet viburnum 



Post oak Angelica-tree 



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