. Wood and forest . 82 WOOD AND FOREST. 13 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 theTree: Height, 70-80,even 100: diameter, 2-3,grows slowly; trunk,straight, columnar,jjranches in whorls, cleanswell 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 firstwinter. Appearance of Wood: Color, dull
. Wood and forest . 82 WOOD AND FOREST. 13 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 theTree: Height, 70-80,even 100: diameter, 2-3,grows slowly; trunk,straight, columnar,jjranches in whorls, cleanswell 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 firstwinter. Appearance of Wood: Color, dull white with oc-casional reddish streaks;sap-wood not distinct;non-poious; rings, sum-mer rings tltin, but clearlydefined; grain, straight;rays, faintly discernible;resin ducts, few and small. No; disting-uished in the Jesup collection from Picea nigra. SPECIES OF WOODS. 83 Physical Qualities: Weight, light(4rth in this list) ; 28 lbs. per cu. ft.,sp. gr., ; medium strong (41st inthis list) ; elastic (21st in this
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