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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1907|title=The Country Gentleman| volume=72, Part 2| page=719| passage=Owing to the low price offered for '''chittims''' bark the amount peeled in Oregon and Washington this year is limited.}}

#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011| title=The Dust of Old Dole Road: From Poverty to Peace |author=Dan Oliver |page=134| passage=We peeled "'''chittim'''" bark, on and off for at least thee years through the summers of my fourth, fifth, and sixth grades.}}

# A {{vern|yellow cottonwood}} tree, of species {{taxlinktaxfmt|Populus deltoides|species}}.

#* {{quote-book|en|year=1890|title=The American Monthly Microscopical Journal| volume=11-12| page=53| passage=The most superficial observer of lumber knows that there is generally a considerable difference between the wood of trees belonging to different species. Sometimes it is quite small, so that lumbermen have no constitutional objection to working off short leaf for long leaf yellow pine, hemlock for white pine, '''chittim''' wood, or yellow cottonwood for poplar and red birch for cherry, if it can be done without detection.}}

#* {{quote-book|en|year=1904|title=The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly| volume=9| page=11| passage=This was the '''chittim''' wood, otherwise called yellow wood, a very ornamental tree and one of the prettiest in the forests of the State.}}