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CAROLINA CYRILLA. 
CYRILLA racemiflora, foliis cuneato-lanceolatis , viz acutis , sub-mem* 
branaceis , glabris , petalis calyce triplo bngioribus medio convexis. 
Cyrilla racemiflora . Linn. Mantis, p. 50. Walter. Flor. Carol, p. 
103. Willd. Sp. PL 1. c. Elliott, Sketch, I. p. 294. Nouv. Du- 
ll amel, yol. 1, p. 215, t. 46. 
Cyrilla racemifera , Vandell. Florul. Lusitan. et Bresil, specim. 88. 
Cyrilla Caroliniana. Richard in Mich. Flor. Bor. Amer. 1, p. 158. 
Persoon 1 , p. 175. 
Itea Cyrilla . L’Herit. Stirp. vol. 1, p. 137, tab. 66. Swartz, Prod . 
p. 50. Sp. pi. 1, p. 1146. 
This very elegant tree begins to appear in the low 
humid woods and pine barrens of South Carolina, in 
swampy places, where it attains the height of 12 to 20 
feet, with a diameter of 8 to 10 inches, and is sometimes 
so loaded with its numerous racemes of white flowers that 
we can scarcely perceive the leaves. It is in fact one of 
the most beautiful trees of the southern forests, and is there- 
fore often preserved in the vicinity of habitations as an 
ornament. It continues to be met with throughout Georgia 
and the Floridas ; reappears in the West Indies, and was 
discovered by Vellozo in Brazil. According to Michaux 
the elder, there is also a second species, ( Cyrilla Antil- 
lcma,') with laurel-like leaves in the Antilles. 
From the name of Iron-Wood sometimes given to it by 
the English, it would appear that the wood is hard and 
close-grained, but no experiments have yet been made 
upon it. In Bartram’s Botanic Garden, at Kingsessing, in 
this vicinity, it is perfectly hardy ; there is now growing 
there a tree near upon 20 feet high, and 2 feet 2 inches in 
circumference. The bark on the old trunks is of a reddish 
