TIMBERS. 465 
Forms, with other species of Eucalyptus, the Mallee country 
of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South-western 
Australia, 
281. Eucalyptus Gunnii, Zook. f,, (Syn. £. ligustrina, Mig.; £. 
acervula, Hook., f.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.F1., iii., 246. 
In Tasmania this is known as ‘‘ Cider Gum,” and in South-eastern 
Australia occasionally as the ‘‘Sugar Gum.” In the same part it is known 
as “ White Gum,” ‘Swamp Gum,” or ‘“‘ White Swamp Gum,” and in the 
Noarlunga and Rapid Bay districts of South Australia as ‘‘ Bastard White 
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Gum.” Occasionally it is known as ‘‘ Yellow Gum.” Near Bombala, 
New South Wales, two varieties go by the name of “‘ Flooded,” or *‘ Bastard 
Gum,” and ‘‘ Red Gum.” 
The sweetish sap (see ‘‘ Foods’’) of this tree is better known 
than its timber. ‘‘ This tree is of too crooked a growth to be 
available as a timber tree to any great extent, and its average height 
is only about thirty feet in South Australia. The wood is hard and 
of good weight, but it is looked upon by the splitter as of very poor 
quality for general utilitarian purposes. For posts and underground 
workthetimberisworthless. It, however, makesexcellent charcoal.” 
(J.E.Brown.) Inthe extreme south of New South Wales, the variety 
called ‘‘Flooded Gum,” or ‘‘ Bastard Gum,” has a timber which is 
considered brittle, and is not used. The variety called ‘ Red 
Gum” is, however, considered by most people in the neighbour- 
hood to be the very best for standing underground, and is therefore 
preferred to any other for posts and piles, and especially for house 
blocks. It is also used for fencing, slabs, etc. This timber is 
rather hard to cut, and has a reddish colour, and, therefore, it is 
just possible that it may have been confused with the ordinary 
“Red Gum” (£. rostrata), whose durable properties are well 
known. The ‘‘ Flooded Gum” occurs near creeks and swampy 
places, and the trunk is apt to branch out at no great altitude from 
the ground ; the “Red Gum” (2. Gunniz) grows in higher and 
drier situations, runs up to a pretty high straight trunk, and the 
timber is hard to cut and darker in colour than the former. 
A specimen of timber (‘Swamp Gum”’) of this species, 
from Victoria, in the Technological Museum, is tough, of a light 
reddish-brown colour, and has a few gum-veins. 
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