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The wood is somewhat variable, but generally speaking it is 

 useful on account of its toughness and durability, though it is 

 subject to white ant and dry rot when standing long in the ground. 

 It is excellent for firewood, and the bark is utilized for covering 

 rustic buildings. This tree also varies considerably in size ; for 

 whilst, in some places, it rises over 100 feet, it appears in others 

 somewhat stunted in growth. The sx^ecific name is rather 

 inappropriate, as there are several species of haK-barkedEucalypts 

 to which the name is equally applicable. With the Box of the 

 Eastern coast. Baron Mueller connects E. alhens, or the " White 

 Box Tree " on the other side of the Dividing Range, as the trees 

 agree in all their characteristics, differing only '' in the more 

 extensively persistent bark, in paler dull foliage, and in chalky- 

 white bloom on the flowers." Mr. Bentham places the trees in 

 different sections, but, according to his description of the anthers, 

 they vary only in the openings, and that, too, not materially, the 

 difference probably arising from the comparative age of the 

 flowers. This tree is quite distinct from the Yellow Box of the 

 interior, fE. melliodoraj, which is a tree of moderate size with a 

 smooth bark of a pale colour, scaling off in flakes, especially in 

 the upper parts. It also differs from the Dwarf Box of the 

 Darling in having the fruit more oblong in shape, and the capsule 

 more deeply sunk. 



4. JE. longifolia, (Link & Otto), the common *' WooUy Butt," 

 is well defined by its large flowers and fruit, and long leaves. 

 The flowers are generally in threes, and the leaves sometimes a 

 foot in length, whilst the fruit is larger than that of any Eucalypt 

 near Sydney, excepting perhaps an occasional specimen of E. 

 resinifera, growing near the coast. The bark of the WooUy Butt 

 is somewhat variable, for, whilst in the younger trees, it is of a 

 brown colour, thick, deciduous, and scarcely fibrous, that of the 

 older trees becomes persistent on the butt and of a greyish colour, 

 the branches being smooth and pale. In favourable situations, 

 the Woolly Butt sometimes attains the height of 150 feet with a 



