. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. is found evengrowing to great age in the floating bogs aboutthe shores of small lakes in northern Minne-sota and producing cones in abundance, eventhough no more than 2 or .3 ft. in height. The wood of the Black Spruce is light, a cu. ft. weighing lbs., soft and useful for paper pulp and lumber w^hen of sufficient siz^.s Considerable spruce gum is also derived from this tree. Leaves usually %-% in. long, crowded and moreor less curved, stiff and with sharp callous tips,blue-green wit
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. is found evengrowing to great age in the floating bogs aboutthe shores of small lakes in northern Minne-sota and producing cones in abundance, eventhough no more than 2 or .3 ft. in height. The wood of the Black Spruce is light, a cu. ft. weighing lbs., soft and useful for paper pulp and lumber w^hen of sufficient siz^.s Considerable spruce gum is also derived from this tree. Leaves usually %-% in. long, crowded and moreor less curved, stiff and with sharp callous tips,blue-green with numerous stomata above andfewer beneath : branchlets pubescput. Floirrrs:staminate ol)!ong with reddish anthers ; pistillatooblong with thin reflexed scales and rounded erosobracts. Fruit: cones ovate, persisting often 2 ormore seasons, strongly reflexed upon the branch-lets, %-lV2 in. long, narrowing to a strongly in-curved stalk, with scales rounded and more orless erose-dpntate at anpx ; S(>Pds about l^ ^ with ample pale brown wing widest above themiddli\ 1. Syn. P. brcvifolia
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