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it is used for many industrial purposes. The same may be said of 

 Acacia melanoxylon (R. Br.), and A. elata (A. Cunn.), which rise 

 to a considerable height, and afford excellent timber for carpentry 

 and cabinet work. Doryphora sassafras (Endl.) is often 

 characterised as a beautiful aromatic tree. Its wood, indeed, is 

 flagrant but not durable, and an infusion of its bark is used as a 

 tonic. Quintinia Sieberi is also a fine ornamental tree, growing in 

 company with the pi*eceding trees, and its wood is useful for cabinet 

 work. Eugenia Smithii (Poir.) or the " Myrtle," rises to the 

 height of 40 or 50 feet in the chocolate soil : its timber is 

 hard and close-grained, and useful for carpentry, handles, and 

 staves. Myrsine variahilis (R. Br.), and Iledycarya angustifolia 

 (A. Cunn.), though merely shrubs in many parts of the colony 

 become trees of some size in the fertile soil of Mount Wilson, 

 but their wood, especially that of the latter, is soft and of little 

 value. Fieldia australis, which Cunningham first noticed at 

 Mount Tomah, is very abundant on Tree-ferns and other trees ; 

 and the climbers of which he speaks in general terms appear to 

 be Vitis hypoglauca (F. v. M.), Lyonsia straminea (R. Br.). L. 

 reticulata (F. v. M.), and Tecoma australis (R. Br.), Marsdenia 

 rostrata (R. Br.), and Tyloplwraharhata (R. Br.), are smaller and 

 twining plaiits. Some of the climbers seem to kill the young 

 trees on which they ascended to others, and hang down from lofty 

 branches as if they had attained their position by some unseen 

 agency. In the shady woods I noticed the " Kangaroo Apple " 

 Solanum aviculare (Forst.), Cojjrosvia Billardieri (Hook.), some- 

 times called " Currant," and Sniilax australis (R. Br.), the 

 " Australian lawyer." Of the epiphytal Orchids, Dendrohium 

 teretifolium (R. Br.), D. pugioniforme (A. Cunn.), and Sarcochilus 

 falcatus (R. Br.) were the only species which I was fortunate 

 enough to see, but no doubt many more remain to be observed. 

 I picked up on the ground a fragment of Viscum articulatum 

 (Burm.) which must have fallen from one of the lofty trees, and 

 also some leaves, as they appeared to be, of Litscea dealbata 

 (Nees.), Eloiocarpus holopetalus (F. v. M.), and Banhsia integri- 

 folia (Linn.), but of these better specimens are needed for 

 identifying the species. 



