YELLOW-WOOD; VIRGILIA (Clcuirardie lutea, Raf.). 30 to 60 feet. Slender, graceful tree, with wide-spreading, pen dulous branches, brittle twigs, forming a round head above a short trunk. Bark gray, often silvery, fine-textured like beech bark; branches paler. Wood yellow, satiny, hard, fine grained, turning brown with exposure, used for gun stocks and fuel. Yields yellow dye. Leaves compound of 5 to 11, oval leaflets, plain margined, smooth, bright green, paler beneath, 3 to 4 inches long, clear yellow in fall. Flowers
creamy white, fragrant, of the pea-blossom type loose panicles, 12 to 14 inches long, and 5 to 6 inches wide, in June. Fruit clustered pods, thin, brown, smooth, few-seeded, 2 to 3 inches long, ripe in September, and falling soon. Dist.: Limestone ridges, oftener on bluffs overhanging streams, rare and local in Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Hardy in Boston. A beautiful flowering tree, improved by cultiva tion.