124. PINCTS PALUSTRIS LONG-LEAVED PINE. 51 



USES. Too uncommon a timber to be extensively used, though its 

 properties would strougly commend it for the uses to which the northern 

 White Pine is applied. Few if any of the southern pines as closely 

 resemble the White Pine in working qualities as this. 



MEDICINAL PKOPEKTIES are not claimed of this species. 



124. PINUS PALUSTRIS, MILL.* 

 LONG-LEAVED PINE, HARD PINE. GEORGIA PINE, SOUTHERN PINE. 



Ger., Langnadelige Ficlite; Er., Pin de feuilles allonges; Sp., Pino con 



hojas largas. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Leaves in 3s, very long, 8-15 in., with long ragged and 

 fimbriated sheaths f-1 in. long, crowded at the ends of very rough, scaly, thick branch- 

 lets. Staminate flowers in rose-purple aments, 2-3 in. long. Fruit, large, cylindri- 

 cal or couical-oblong terminal cones. 6-10 in. long, sessile or nearly so, with scales 

 thickened at the extremity and armed with a short recurved spine. 



(The specific name, paLustris, is the Latin for swampy, and inappropriately applied 

 to this tree as it is rarely found in swampy places. 



A tree occasionally attaining the hight of 80 or 90 ft. (25 m.) with 

 lofty wide top of few large branches, the foliage tufted at the ends of the 

 branchlets, and trunk rarely over 3-3| ft. (1 m.) in diameter, clothed in 

 a grayish-brown bark, checked into large elongated patches the outer 

 surfaces of which flake off in irregular friable scales. 



HABITAT. From southern Virginia southward along the coast to 

 about the latitude of Tamp i, Fla., and thence westward to Louisiana 

 and Texas, growing in dry, sandy soil and occupying vast tracts known 

 as the Pine Barrens, and of which this was originally almost the exclus- 

 ive tree. 



PHYSICAL PROPERTIES. Wood hard, heavy, strong, tough, coarse- 

 grained, compact, durable in contact with the soil and very resinous. 

 It is of a pinkish-brown color with lighter sap-wood. Specific Gravity, 

 0.6999; Percentage of Ash, 0.25; Relative Approximate Fuel Value, 

 0.6982; Coefficient of Elasticity* 148733; Modulus of Rupture, 1152; 

 Resistance to Longitudinal Pressure, 629; Resistance to Indentation, 153; 

 WflJrilit of n Culic Foot in Pounds, 43.62. 



F<ES. A tree of greatest economic value, the wood being peculiarly 

 appropriate for flooring, for which it is extensively employed, and is also 

 larsrely used for ship-building and general construction purposes, for 

 railway ties and occasionally "fisrnred" trees, which are of rare orna- 

 mental value, for rich interior finishing, etc. 



' * Pinus australi*, Michx, in Chapman's Flora of the Southern States. 



