218 FOREST CULTURE AND 
From the nuts the Japanese press an oil, used as an 
article of food. 
Torreya taxifolia, Arnott.—Florida.—A tree fifty 
feet in height, with a firm, close-grained, durable 
wood of a reddish color. 
Widdringtonia juniperoides, Kndl.—South Africa, 
three thousand to four thousand feet above sea-level. 
A middling sized tree, rich in resin. 
II.—MISCELLANEOUS TREES, NOT CONIFEROUS. 
Acacia acuminata, Benth.—A kind of Myall from 
Western Australia, attaining a height of forty feet. 
Acacia decurrens, Willd. (A. mollissima, Willd. ; 
A. dealbata, Link.)—The Black Wattle, or Silver 
Wattle. From the eastern part of S. Australia, through 
Victoria and N. 8S. Wales, to the southern part of 
Queensland ; in open plains a small or middle-sized 
tree ; in deep forest recesses a lofty tree, of singularly 
rapid growth. Its wood can be used for staves and 
many other purposes, but its chief use would be to af- 
ford the first shelter, in treeless localities, for raising 
forests. Its bark, rich in tannin, and its gum, not 
dissimilar to Gum Arabic, render this tree also im- 
portant. Other quick-growing trees, useful in vari- 
ous ways, growing in any soil, and enduring drought, 
can be used simultaneously, by mere dissemination, 
in plowed ground, for dense temporary belts of shel- 
ter, or for quick- yielding fuel plantations, such as 
Acacia pycnantha, A. lophantha, Casuarina quadrival- 
vis, Casuarina suberosa, Eucalyptus melliodora, Euca- 
lyptus viminalis, and many other Eucalypts, all easily 
growing from seed. 
