wax-myrtle

I was met in the bare unpainted hall by a dropsical man of nearly sixty, holding a dim candle, a wax-myrtle dip wrapped on a corncob.

The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

"Some call it candle-berry, and others wax-myrtle."

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

Before the Revolution a favorite candle for burning at fine houses was made of the wax-myrtle berry.

Stories of American Life and Adventure Edward Eggleston 1869

Here the river Piscataqua widens to join the sea, holding in its gaping mouth the large island of Newcastle, with attendant groups of islets and island rocks, battered with the rack of ages, studded with dwarf savins, or half clad with patches of whortleberry bushes, sumac, and the shining wax-myrtle, green in summer, red with the touch of October.

A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Francis Parkman 1858