Habitat. 



82 WOOD AND FOREST. 



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Red Spruce.* 

 Picea ruhens Sargent. 



Picea, the classical Latin name for the pitch pine; ruhens refers to red- 

 dish bark, and perliaps to the reddish streaks in the wood. 



Habitat; (See map) ; 

 pttinted in north. 



Characteristics of the 

 Tree : Height, 70'-80', 

 even 100': diameter, 2'-3', 

 grows slowly ; trunk, 

 straight, columnar, 

 jjranches in whorls, cleans 

 well in forest ; bark, red- 

 dish Ijrown with thin ir- 

 regidar scales ; leaves, 

 needle-shaped, four-sided, 

 pointing everywhere ; 

 cones, iy^"-'2" long, pen- 

 dent, fall during the first 

 winter. 



Appearance of Wood: 



Color, dull white with oc- 

 casional reddish streaks; 

 sap-wood not distinct; 

 non-poious ; rings, sum- 

 mer rings tltin, but clearly 

 defined; grain, straight; 

 rays, faintly discernible ; 

 resin ducts, few and small. 



I.faf. 



"No; disting-uished in the Jesup collection from Picea nigra. 



