1858, 253. — Chapman,  Fl.  S.  States,  272. — Curtis  in  Eep.  Geological  Surv.  N.  Carolina,  1860,  iii,  105. — Porcher,  Eesources  S.  Forests,
130.— Maout  &  Docaisne,  Bot.  English  ed.  540  &  f.— Baillon,  Adansonia,  i,  203,  t.  4.— Wood,  CI.  Book,  493 ;  Bot.  &  Fl.  205.— Vasey,
Cat.  Forest  Trees,  18.
Andromeda  plumata,  Bartram,  Cat.— Marshall,  Arbustum,  9.
C.  Caroliniana,  Michaux,  Fl.  Bor.-Am.  i,  158.— Gssrtner,  f.  Fruct.  Suppl.  147,  t.  209,  f.  8.— Persoon,  Syn.  i,  175.— Pursh,  Fl.
Am.  Sept.  i,  170.— Nuttall,  Genera,  i,  145.— Poiret,  Suppl.  ii,  436.— Ecemer  &  Schultes,  Syst.  v,  408.— Bot.  Mag.  t.  2456.—
Walpers,  Eep.  vi,  421. — Dietrich,  Syn.  i,  805.
Itea  Cyrilla,  L'Heritier,  Stirp.  i,  137,  t.  66.— Swartz,  Prodr.  50  ;  Fl.  Ind.  Occ.  i,  506  ;  Obs.  94,  t.  4.— Willdenow,  Spec,  i,  1146.—
Aiton,  Hort.  Kew.  2  ed.  ii,  37.
C.  racemosa,  Loudon,  Arboretum,  iv,  2577,  f.  2503.
C.polystachia,  C.  parvifolia,  C.fuscata,  Eaiinesque,  Aulikon  Botanikon,  8.
IKON  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  taU
shrub,  sending  up  many  stems  from  the  root;  open  swamps  and  low  thickets;  a  variety  {Chapman,  Gurtisa)  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-grained,  compact;  medullary  rays  thin,  not  conspicuous;  color,  brown  tinged
with  red,  the  sap-wood  a  little  lighter ;  specific  gravity,  0.C784 ;  ash,  0.42.
38  FOREST  TREES  OF  NORTH  AMERICA.
