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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



from the trees within a few months afterward, when they are light yellow- 

 brown. The small seeds are characteristically light clay-brown, their compara- 

 tively large, thin wings adhering to them tenaciously. Seed-leaves, from 4 to 



Fig. 30. — Picea sitchensis : a, seed. 



5, slender, and about three-eighths of an inch long. Wood varies greatly in 

 color, but it is commonly a very pale brown, with the faintest tinge of reddish. 

 It is light, soft, from fine to rather coarse grained. It furnishes the best of 



