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36. Ilex decidua, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniaua, 241. Poiret, Suppl. iii, 65. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 269. Curtis in Hep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, I860, iii, 59. 

 Lesquereux iu Owen's 2d Eep. Arkansas, 373. Wood, Cl. Book, 497 ; Bot . & Fl. 208. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 306. Young, 

 Bot. Texas, 373. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 8. Miixiinowicz in Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, xxix, No. '3, 30. Watsou in Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xvii, 335. 



I. pritwidcs, Alton, Hort. Kew. i, 1(>9; 'i ed. i, 'J7H. Lamarck, 111. i, 355. Willdrnow, Spec, i, 70U. Kouveau Dubaiuel, i, 

 11. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am., ii, 229. Persoon, Syn. i, 151. DesCc.iitaincs. llii-t. Arli. ii. 362. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 

 118. Nuttall, Genera, i, 109. Rccmer & Scliultes, Syst. iii, 488; Mant. 332. Watson, Dend. Brit, i, 1. 15. - Sprengel, 

 Syst. i, 495. Audul>on, Birds, t. *;. Eaton, Manual, U ed. 187. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 282. Darby, Bot. S. States, 426. 



/. ceativalis, Lamarck, Diet, iii, 147 ; 111. i, 350. 



Prinos deciduus, Do Candolle, Prodr. ii, 16. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 20. Hooker, Jour. Bot. i, 202. London, Arboretum, 

 ii, 520. 



/. ambiguuti, Elliott, Sk. ii, 705. 



Southern Virginia, southward, through the middle districts, to western Florida, valley of the Mississippi 

 river, southern Illinois southward to the Gulf of Mexico, and through southeastern Missouri, Arkansas, and eastern 

 Texas to the valley of the Colorado river. 



A small tree, 8 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or in the Atlantic states a 

 tall, straggling shrub ; low, wet woods along streams, reaching its greatest development in the Iron Mountain 

 region of Missouri and in southern Arkansas. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, creamy-white, the sap-wood 

 lighter; specific gravity, 0.7420; ash, 0.70. 



CYRILLACEJ;. 



37. Cyrilla racemiflora, Liuuseus, 



Mant.i, 50; Syst. 14 ed. 241. Jacquin, Icon. Rar. t. 47; Coll. i, 162. Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 103. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 245; 111. ii, 

 144, t. 147, f. 2. Nouveau Duhamel, i, 215, t. 46. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i, 255. Elliott, Sk. i, 294. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 119. 

 Eaton & Wright, Bot, 218. Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 256. Nuttall, Sylva, ii, 96, t. 74 ; 2 ed. ii, 43, t. 74. Planchon in 

 Hooker's Jour. Bot. v, 254. Schnizlein, Icon. t. 240, f. 1-4, 6, 17, 19, 21. Darby, Bot. S. States, 417. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 

 1858, 253. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 272. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 105. Porcher, Resources S. Forests, 

 130. Maout & Decaisne, Bot. English ed. 540 & f. Baillon, Adansonia, i, 203, t. 4. Wood, Cl. Book, 493 ; Bot. & Fl. 205. Vasey, 

 Cat, Forest Trees, 18. 



Andromeda plumata, Bartram, Cat. Marshall, Arhustnm, 9. 



C. Caroliniana, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 158. Gartner, f. Fruet. Suppl. 147, t. 209, f. 8. Persoon, Syn. i, 175. Pursh, FL 

 Am. Sept, i, 170. Nuttall, Genera, i, 145. Poiret, Suppl. ii, 436. Rcemer & Schultes, Syst. v, 408. Bot. Mag. t. 2456. 

 Walpers, Rep. vi, 421. Dietrich, Syn. i, 805. 



Itea Gyrilla, L'Heritier, Stirp. i, 137, t, 66. Swartz, Prodr. 50 ; Fl. Ind. Occ. i, 506 ; Ohs. 94, t. 4. Willdenow, Spec, i, 1146. 

 Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. ii, 37. 



C. racemosa, London, Arboretnm, iv, 2577, f. 2503. 



C.polystachia, G. parvifolia, C.fwcata, Rannesque, Aulikon Botanikon, 8. 



IRON WOOD. 



North Carolina southward, near the coast, to middle Florida (latitude 30), westward, along the Gulf coast, 

 to the valley of the Pearl river, Mississippi. 



A small tree, sometimes 8 to 10 meters in height, with a trunk 0.15 to 0.20 meter in diameter, or often a tall 

 shrub, sending up many stems from the root; open swamps and low thickets; a variety (Chapman, Curti/ss) with 

 narrower, persistent leaves, and thicker spongy bark, in pond holes and wet depressions of the pine barrens of the 

 Apalachicola region of western Florida, forms dense, impenetrable thickets. 



Wood heavy, weak, hard, close-graiifed, compact; medullary rays thin, not conspicuous; color, brown tinged! 

 with red, the sap-wood a little lighter ; specific gravity, 0.6784 ; ash, 0.42. 



