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or 120 feet; some of these woods are reported as excellent for house-carpentry, 
whilst others were inferior; 300 to 400 feet high; the bark makes packing, 
printing, and even writing paper; also good for mill and paste-boards; the 
pulp bleaches readily; forms the main mass of forests of the more barren 
mountains; the thick bark has also been successfully manufactured into 
door-mats, cheap fences, palings, shimgles and wood-work. 
E. amygdalina or Almond-leaved Eucalyptus, or Messmate, is like the Stringy 
Bark, but the upper branches are smooth; 200 feet high; wood not much 
valued; a hard tree for the settlers to kill, it is so irregular at the base; wood 
folded or deeply indented, forming clefts or ‘‘ pockets ’’ so that they cannot 
ring, belt or girdle the tree to advantage, for they fail to reach all the bark of 
these hollows. In the Messmate the leaves are not so thick as in the Stringy 
Bark, nor are they so oblique at the base; flower-buds are smaller; lid more 
hemispherical, and its point sharper, whilst the seed-vessel is more globose; 
but they vary from #. radiata in bark and habit; 5 to 15 feet diameter, with 
200 feet of clean shaft. 
Dr. Mueller’s scientific work abounds in varied information; but collations 
from that work are omitted to avoid repetition. For medical and manifold 
uses see his work. 
P. 5.—As Dr. Mueller’s ‘‘Additions to the List of Principal Timber Trees, 
etc.’’ (Issued 1871-2, by the Victorian Acclimatization Society) is not access- 
ible to many, we extract the following: 
E. botryoides, Smith. From East Gipps Land to South Queensland. One 
of the most stately among many species, remarkable for its dark green shady 
foliage. It delights on river banks—80 feet without a branch, diameter of 8 
feet. Timber usually sound to the center; water work, wagons, knees of 
boats, etc., for posts very lasting, as no decay was observed in 14 years. 
E.. brachypoda, Ture. Widely dispersed over the most arid tropical and 
extra-tropical inland regions of Australia. One of the best trees for desert 
tracts; in favorable places 150 feet high. Wood brown, sometimes very dark, 
hard, heavy and elastic, prettily marked, used for cabinet work, but more 
particularly for piles, bridges and railway sleepers. (Rey. Dr. Woolls). 
E. calophylla, R. Brown. §.W. Australia. More umbrageous than most 
Eucalypti, and of comparatively rapid growth. The wood is free of resin 
when grown on alluvial land, but not so when produced on stony ranges. 
Preferred to EL. marginata and E. cornuta for rafters, spokes and fence-rails— 
strong and light but not lasting long underground. Bark valuable for tan- 
ning, as anjadmixture to Acacia bark. 
E. cornuta. §. W. Australia. A large tree of rapid growth, prefers a some- 
what humid soil. Used for various artizan work, preferred for strongest 
shafts and frames of carts, and work requiring hardness, toughness and elas- 
ticity. 
