136 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



WATER HICKORY. SWAMP HICKORY. BITTER PECAN. 



North Carolina, in the lower districts, south to cape Malabar and the Caloosa river, Florida (in Florida not 

 detected within 8 or 10 miles of the coast), through the Gulf states to western Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, 

 and the valley of the Brazos river, Texas. 



A tree 18 to 21 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 0.90 meter in diameter, or generally much smaller; low 

 river swamps ; most common and reaching its greatest development in the bottom lands of the lower Mississippi 

 and Yazoo rivers. 



Wood heavy, soft, strong, rather brittle, very close-grained, compact, containing few scattered, open ducts ; 

 layers of annual growth less clearly marked than in the other species of the genus ; medullary rays numerous, 

 thin ; color, dark brown, the sap-wood light, often nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.7407 ; ash, 1.27 ; used for 

 fencing, fuel, etc. 



MYRICAOEJB. 



249. Myrica cerifera, Linnseus, 



Spec. 1 ed. 1024. Kalm, Travels, English ed. i, 92. Marshall, Arbustum, 94. Lamarck, Diet, ii, 592; 111. iii, 402, t. 809, f. 1. 

 Gasrtner, Fruct. i, 190, t. 39, f. 7. Walter, Fl. Caroliuiana, 242. Alton, Hort. Kew. iii, 396; 2 ed. v, 379. Mcench, Meth. 362. 

 B. S. Barton, Coll. ii, 4. Nouveau Duhamel, ii, 190. Schkuhr, Handb. iii, 465, t. 322. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 227. 

 Willdenow, Spec, iv, 745; Emim. 1011 ; Berl. Baumz.254. Persoon, Syn. ii, 614. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 472. Titford, Hort. 

 Bot. Am. 100. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 620. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 235 ; Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 2 ser. v, 167. Bigelow, Med. Bot. iii, 

 32, t. 43; Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 394. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 197. Elliott, Sk. ii, 678. Sprengel, Syst. i, 493. Torrey, Compcnd. Fl. N. 

 States, 372; Fl. N. York, ii, 197. Rafinesque, Med. Bot. ii, 244. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 231. Beck, Bot. 324. London, Arboretum, 

 iv, 2057, f. 1968. Lindley, Fl. Med. 305. Dietrich, Syn. i, 551. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 324. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi, 263. Emerson, 

 Trees Massachusetts, 224 ; 2 ed. i,256 & t. Darby, Bot. S. States, 507. Chapman, Fl. S States, 426. Curtis in Rep. Geological 

 Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 106. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 389. Wood, Cl. Book, 650 ; Bot. & Fl. 309. Porcher, 

 Resources S. Forests, 312. C. De Candolle in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4 ser. xviii, 21, t. 3, f. 32; Prodr. xvi 2 , 148. Lawson in Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edinburgh, viii, 108. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 457. Koch, Dendrologie, ii, 663. Young, Bot. Texas, 511. Vasey, Cat. 

 Forest Trees, 28. 



M. Pennsylvanica, Lamarck, Diet, ii, 592. Desfoutaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 472. Nouveau Duhamel, ii, 190, t. 55. Pursh, Fl. 

 Am. Sept. ii, 620. Sprengel, Syst. i,493. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 232. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 325. Spach, Hist. Veg. 

 xi, 262. 



M. Carolinensis, Miller, Diet. No. 3. Wangenheim, Amer. 102. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 746; Enum. 1011. Alton, Hort. Kew. 

 2 ed. v, 379. Pursh, Fl. Ain. Sept. ii, 620. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 235. Elliott, Sk. ii, 678. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 232 

 Eaton & Wright, Bot. 324. Darby, Bot. S. States, 507. 



M. cerifera humilis, Marshall, Arbustum, 95. 



M . cerifera, var. latifolia, Alton, Hort. Kew. iii, 396. 



M. cerifera, var. media, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 227. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 427. 



M. cerifera, var. arborescens, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 227. 



M. cerifera, var. pumila, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 227. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 620. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 427. 



M . cerifera, var. angustifolia, C. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 148. 



M. cerifera sempervirens, Hort. 



BAYBERRY. WAX MYRTLE. 



Shores of lake Erie ; Maine, and south near the coast to the Florida keys and southern Alabama. 



A tree sometimes 12 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.45 meter in diameter, or, except in the southern 

 states, a low, much-branched shrub ; usually on sandy beaches and dry hillsides, reaching its greatest development 

 in the bottoms and rich hummocks of the Georgia and Florida coasts. 



Wood light, soft, strong, brittle, very close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, thin ; color, dark 

 brown, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.5637 ; ash, 0.51. 



The leaves and stimulant and astringent bark of the roots sometimes employed by herbalists (Am. Jour. 

 Pharm. 1863, 193. U. S. Dispensatory, 14 ed. 257, 1706. Nat. Dispensatory, 2 ed. 944). The wax which covers the 

 small globular fruit, formerly largely collected and made into candles, and now, under the name of myrtle-wax, 

 a popular remedy in the treatment of dysentery. 



