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It is a close-grained timber, light in weight, short in the grain, and splits so readily that it is 

 necessary to bore holes before using nails. The numerous knots rather add to its beauty as a 

 decorative timber. Having such a great variety of colour and grain, a very artistic effect could 

 be secured in cabinet work by a careful selection of the timber. 



Description of the Tree. An evergreen tree, varying in height according to 

 environment. In the far interior it is stunted in growth, whilst towards the main 

 Dividing Ranges it attains a height of over 100 feet, with a diameter from 2 to 3 feet. 

 The bark is hard, compact, furrowed, but lighter in colour than that of C. calcarata, 

 which forms with it the principal pines of the interior. 



Leaves are at first pyramidal, then decurrent in whorls of three, glaucous, the 

 internodes being shorter than obtain in most species ; free end short, acute, the decurrent 

 portion rounded. 



Male amenta small, 2 to 4 lines long, cylindrical, oblong, or ovoid, very numerous, 

 occurring in general, in threes at the end of the leaf series, the stamens in whorls of 

 threes, the scale-like apex concave, cordate, anther cells two to four. Female amenta 

 solitary or not often found in clusters, situated generally at the lower part of the 

 branchlets. 



Fruiting cones globular, rarely pointed at the top, about half an inch, exception- 

 ally three-quarters of an inch in diameter, slightly scabrous, valves six, alternately 

 large and mall, the latter about a quarter less in size than, the larger ones, valvate, 

 channelled at the base, dorsal point scarcely perceptible. Seeds two to three-winged ; the 

 central columella under 2 lines. 



Geographical Range. No Callitris has so wide a distribution as C. glanca. It 

 occurs on the western slopes of the coastal ranges of the continent, right across the far 

 interior from east to west and north to south. It is easily distinguishable from its 

 congeners by its glaucous foliage. 



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