Handbook of Treks of the Koir 



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The Swamp Bay is a tree of medium size 

 rarely more than 30 or 40 ft. in height or witli 

 trunk more than 1 'l- ft. in thickness, witii 

 straiglit branches and copious foliage. It is 

 confined to the coast regions of tiic Gulf and 

 Atlantic states but ranges nortlnvaid into 

 Virginia, where 1 have seen it in the Dismal 

 Swamp in company with the Hald Cypress, 

 Red Maple, Tupelo and Water (iums. Water 

 Ash, Over-cup and Laurel Oaks, etc. Further 

 south it is more abundant occurring in pine- 

 barren swamps, sometimes to the exclusion of 

 nearly every other species. 



The wood is rather heavy, a cubic ft. when 

 absolutely dry weigliing 39.86 lbs., soft and 

 strong, and wlien found large enough applica- 

 ble to the same uses as the Red Bay. 2 



Leaves oval to lanceolate, about equally pointed 

 at both ends, margin slightly revolute, tonientoso 

 when they unfold but when mature lustrous dark 

 green above, paler and pubescent beneath, rusty 

 tomentoso on midrib and primary veins, veins 



stout. th*se and the new 

 ty tm^^am!^^Floiccrs with 



growth generally rust.^ 

 tomentose peduncles, from 1-."'. in. long when fully 

 grown; calyx pale yellow with thick broad ovnfc 

 pointed lobes, tomentose outside, pubescent insid >. 

 and those of the outer spries about half as binv' 

 as those of the inner. Fridt dark blue, finm 

 Vi to % in. long, with thin aromatic flesh. ^ 



1. Persea Carolineneia var. palustria Chapman. 



2. A. W., V, 113. 



o. For genus see p. 435. 



