ON THE HUON PINE, &c. 147 
Hag. Tasmania, on the east coast; Mr. Backhouse; Gunn, 
n. 543.  Flinders's Island, Bass' Straits ; Backhouse. 
Were it not for the noble suite of specimens sent by Mr. 
Gunn, under the same number, I should certainly have 
been led to make at least two species of this, so different is 
the character of its extremes. The cones when mature 
are either smooth or much corrugated, their angles acute or 
blunt, the colour pale grey and shining, or brown and opaque; 
in the centre of the cone there is generally an elevated 
woody body, with three divergent arms, one opposite each of 
the smaller scales, these sometimes fork again; in other 
cases this is reduced to a single short style, or may be wholly 
wanting; it appears formed of three abortive, confluent 
ovaria. The seeds vary much in size, and in the shape and 
breadth of their wings. 
This species forms a large tree (according to Mr. Backhouse) 
50-70 feet high, and 6-9 in girth, sometimes giving a peculiar 
feature to the landscape from its pyramidal form. Mr. 
Gunn states its height to be 25-30 feet, and its trunk a foot 
in diameter, whence there may be another species yet unde- 
Scribed.* I have never seen much use made of the wood, 
which is alleged not to be durable. It is very fragrant ; and 
according to Mr. Backhouse, obnoxious to bugs. 
2. C. Gunnii, Hook. fil.; strobilis subsolitariis v. glomeratis 
breviter pedunculatis ovatis, valvis lignosis linearibus 
obtusis v. subacutis dorso convexis levibus v. longitudi- - 
naliter rugosis, receptaculo levi, columna centrali brevi 
simplici v. tricruri v. nulla, seminibus late ovatis osseis - 
ala plerumque brevissima. 
“Native Cypress," incolarum. 
Has. Tasmania, South Esk River, Mr. Gunn (n. 542). 
* In Mr, Backhouse's * Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies,” _ 
in mentioning the vegetation of Oyster Bay, he enumerates the Oyster Bay |. 
. Pine and also the Callitris pyramidalis among the native trees of that — 
locality ; from which remark, and the discrepancy between his own and = 
Mr. Gunn's dimensions of the timber, it is more than probable that —— 
there are three Tasmanian species of Callitris, = rss 
