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Celery Top Pine. 



(Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Rich.) 



This timber is pale coloured and rather harder than King William Pine (Athrotaxis selagi- 

 noides. It planes well and has an attractive figure, a close yet short grain, and is suitable for 

 violins, panels, and almost anything that a light, easy working timber can be put to, either in 

 joinery, cabinet work, or rolling stock on railways. 



Description of the Tree. A small tree, reaching its maximum height (60 feet) on 

 the lower levels, and becoming dwarfed on the higher altitudes of the mountain ranges, 

 the branches showing a tendency to a verticillate form of growth ; the cladodia cuneate, 

 or rhomboidal, obtuse, bluntly toothed or lobed, i to 2 inches long, the leaf scales very 

 small, and subulate. Male amentum cylindrical, stalked, solitary, or two or three together 

 in the axils of leafy bracts ; microsporophylls imbricate, on a short stipes, with a small 

 connective having an apiculation or crest ; the microsporangia are adnate, and two in 

 number. The female amentum very small, terminal, occurring along the edges of the 

 phylloclade, consisting of a few macrosporophylls in a short spike, or a single one, and 

 individually bearing a solitary, erect macrosporangium, thfe upper macrosporophyll 

 occasionally being sterile. Fruiting scales thick, and fleshy, enclosing the base of the 

 seed, which is ovoid, in a cup-shaped disc, the outer integument membraneous and not 

 winged ; the inner one crustaceous. 



Geographical Range. Endemic to Tasmania. 



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