RED SPRUCE. 



Picea ruhens Sare;.-' 



Fig. 28. Branchlets with mature cones, i ; sterile lower branchlets, 2 ; detached scale, under side, 

 3 ; do, upper side, showing seeds, 4 ; separated seeds, 5 ; a terminal shoot, 6 ; branchlet magnified 

 to show pubescence, 7. 



29. Trunk and Rhododendron foliage in background. Alleghany Mountains, N. C. 



