52 HOUGH'S AMERICAN WOODS. 



Nearly all of the turpentine, tar, pitch and resiii used in the U. S., 

 besides a large quantity annually exported, are products of this tree. 



MEDICINAL PROPERTIES of this species exist mainly in the turpen- 

 tine produced from it. They are stimulant, diuretic, occasionally dia- 

 phoretic and anthelmintic, and when applied externally rubefacient.* 



125. . INUS CUBENSIS, GRISEB. 

 SLASH PINE, SWAMP PINE, BASTARD PINE, MEADOW PINE. 



Ger., Culanische Ficlite ; Fr., Pin taillade ; Sp., Pino recortado. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Leaves in both 2s and 3s, 7-12 in. long, with long sheaths 

 about i in. long, ragged and fimbriated at the margin; branchlets rough and scaly. 

 Stamenate aments purple, about 2 in. long; the pistillate aments terminal, pedunculate 

 and usually two or more together. Fruit ovoid-cylindrical cones, recurved, 3-6 in. 

 long, rich glossy brown as if varnished, scales thickened at the end and armed with 

 a short, recurved spine. 



(The specific name, Cubensis, is a Latinized word meaning Cuban, and alludes to the 

 occurrence of this tree in Cuba, from whence it takes its name.) 



This tree sometimes attains the hight of 80 or 100 ft. (30 m.), with a 

 trunk 2 or 3 ft. (0.90 m.) in diameter, with reddish-brown bark of 

 trunk, rough with loose, irregular, scaly, and not very broad ridges. 



HABITAT. Prom South Carolina southward near the coast to the 

 southern extremity of Florida, also in the West Indies, and westward 

 along the Gulf coast into Louisiana, in light sandy soil in the proximity 

 of the coast and about the ponds of the Pine Barrens. It is springing 

 up abundantly in regions from which forests of the Long leaved Pines 

 have been cleared. 



PHYSICAL PROPERTIES. Wood, hard, heavy, strong, compact, tough, 

 coarse-grained, very resinous, durable and with broad conspicuous bands 

 of summer cells. It is of a light pinkish-brown color with abundant 

 yellowish-white sap-wood. Specific Gravity, 0.7504; Percentage of Ash, 

 0.26; Relative Approximate Fuel Value, 0.7484; Coefficient of Elasticity, 

 157747; Modulus of Rupture, 1172; Resistance to Longitudinal Pres- 

 sure, 664; Resistance to Indentation, 186; Weight of a Cubic Foot in 

 Pounds, 46.76. 



USES. This pine though not as popular as the Long-leaved, nor much 

 used where that can be found, is, nevertheless, but little inferior to it, and 

 applicable to the same uses, as for lumber, for flooring and for general 

 construction purposes, for railway ties, etc. Some turpentine and tar 

 are also procured from this tree. 



MEDICINAL PROPERTIES are the same as those mentioned of the Long- 

 leaved Pine. 



* U. S. Dispensatory, 16th ed. p. 1089-1090. 



