Identifier: threeyoungcruso00murr (find matches)
Title: Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Murrill, William A.
Subjects: Natural history--West Indies.
Publisher: New York city,: W. A. Murrill
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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muchalike, both having blue flowers. The fruit is a cap-sule which becomes orange when ripe. The wood,which is heavier than water, is light-yellow to green-ish, with black center. Live Oak. The same tree that occurs in easternVirginia and farther south. The light-colored woodis valuable. The acorns resemble those of the whiteoak, but are very small, pointed, and enclosed indeep, attractive cups. Mahogany. This large tree is well known be-cause of its valuable wood. The fruit resembles alarge hickory-nut in the husk, but splits at the bot-tom instead of at the top, and is full of winged seedslike those of the maple. Manchineel. A coastal tree with fine wood anda very poisonous milky juice, which was used by theCarib Indians to poison their arrows. The apple-like fruits are also acrid and poisonous. Much hasbeen said about the danger of sleeping in the shadeof this tree on account of the poisonous juices in theleaves, but the accounts have been much exagger-ated. 112 Three Young Crusoes
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Fig. 38. A tragedy in the forest. A young monkey apple tree is kill-ing an older tree on which it has fastened itself. The large black masson the old tree is a white ants nest,plants. and just above it are some air- The Collection of Woods 113 Monkey Apple. A shrub or tree parasitic onother trees, which it often kills. The wood is usedfor fuel only. It yields a resin which has been em-ployed in the treatment of rheumatism. The gum-my milk of a closely related species, called the bal-sam tree, is sometimes used for the treatment ofwounds and insect bites. Also called Scotch attorney. Paritium. x^ large shrub or tree containing be-neath its outer bark a strong and flexible fiber muchused for ropes, mats, and other purposes. Theflowers are very large and the leaves are heart-shaped. Pine. A tree with very resinous, dark-orangewood, resembling the pitch pine of the United States. Poisonwood. This tree is related to our poisonsumac but is much larger, reaching forty feet inheight. It conta

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