. Report on the forests of North America [microform] : (exclusive of Mexico). Trees; Trees; Wood; Forests and forestry; Timber; Arbres; Arbres; Bois; Forêts et sylviculture; Bois d'oeuvre. 136 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. WATER HICKORY. SWAMP HICKORY. BITTER PEOAN. North Carolina, in the loT^-er districts, south to cape Malabar and the Galoosa river, Florida (in Florida not detected within 8 or 10 n;ile8 of the const), 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 to me
. Report on the forests of North America [microform] : (exclusive of Mexico). Trees; Trees; Wood; Forests and forestry; Timber; Arbres; Arbres; Bois; Forêts et sylviculture; Bois d'oeuvre. 136 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. WATER HICKORY. SWAMP HICKORY. BITTER PEOAN. North Carolina, in the loT^-er districts, south to cape Malabar and the Galoosa river, Florida (in Florida not detected within 8 or 10 n;ile8 of the const), 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 to 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 briiile, very close-grained, compact, containing few scattered, open ducts; layers of annual growth less clearly marked than in tli(i other species of the genus; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, dark brown, the sap-wood light, often nearly white; specific gravity, ; ash, ; used for fencing, fuel, etc. MYRICACE^. 249.âMyrica cerifera, Linnreus, Spec. 1 ed. 1024.âKalm, Travels, English ed. i, 92.âMarshall, ArbuBtum, 94.âLamarck, Diet, ii, 592; 111. ill, 402, t. 809, f. 1.â Gojrtner, Fiuct. i, 19li, t. 39, f. 7.âWalter, Fl. Caroliniana, 242.â^Uton, Hort. Kow. iii, 396; 2ed. v, 379.âMoencb, Meth. 362.â B. S. Barton, Coll. ii, 4.âNoiiveau Duhamol, ii, 190.âSclikuhr, Handl). iii, 465, t. 322.âMichanx, Fl. ii, 227.â Willdcnow, Spec, iv, 745; Euum. 1011; Berl. âPitsoou, Syn. ii, 611.âDesfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 472.âTitford, Hort. Bot. Am. 100.âPnroh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 020.âNuttall, Generi, ii, 235; Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 2 ser. v, 167.âBigelow, Med. Bot. ill, 32, t. 43; Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 39-.âHayne, Dend. Fl. 197.âElliott, Sk. ii, 678.âSprengel, Syst. i, 493.âTorrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 372; Fl. N. York, ii, 197.âRafl
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