64 OF WOOD IN GENERAL. 



} Wood flesh-coloured, with pith -flecks. Haw- 

 thorn, Crat&gus Oxyacdntha. 

 H Yellowish-white. Spindle-tree, Euunymus 



europcBUS. 



I tt Greenish. Bladdernut. Staphylea pinndta. 

 Vessels 1 4 together. 

 I Without pith-flecks. 



11 Heartwood flesh-coloured. Dogwood, Cdrnus 



sanguined. 

 1W Brownish-red, no distinct heartwood. Pear, 



Pyrus communis. 

 HUH With a dark red-brown heartwood. Apple, 



Pyrus Mdlus. 

 \l With pith-flecks. 



U Sapwood reddish-white : heartwood reddish- 

 brown : pith-flecks few, near centre. 

 White Beam, Pyrus Aria. 

 1HI Brownish-yellow: pith-flecks numerous. 



Wild Service-tree, Pyrus tormindlis. 

 Vessels 1 5 together: pith-flecks numerous: 

 reddish. Rowan or Mountain Ash, Pyrus 

 Aucupdria. 



Vessels 18 together, minute : sapwood whitish : 

 heartwood reddish, with satiny lustre. Birch, 

 Betula. 



Light yellow, very compact and fine-grained, 

 almost homy : rings scarcely visible : heavy. 

 Box, Buxus. 

 ft W^ood soft. 



Creamy white, yellowish or reddish, light : vessels 

 1 7 together, indistinct : rings wide. Horse- 

 chestnut or Buckeye, dEsculus. 

 Sapwood white or reddish : heartwood light red 

 to dark brown, sometimes lustrous, light : rings 

 sometimes angular : vessels in worm-like 

 groups. Willow, Sdlix. 



