We define a hierarchy

of small sub-recursive classes, based on the schema of
pure iteration.

is compared with a similar hierarchy, based on primitive recursion, for which a collapse is equivalent to a collapse of the
small Grzegorczyk-classes. Our hierarchy does collapse, and the induced relational class is shown to have a highly periodic
structure; indeed a unary predicate is decidable in

iff it is definable in Presburger Arithmetic. The concluding discussion contrasts our findings to those of Kutyłowski [12].