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* florida, Sm.; M. lucida, Menz.; M. robusta, Cunn., 
eighty feet high ; M. tomentosa, Cunn., forty feet) ; 
Fuchsia excorticata, L., also from New Zealand, stem 
two feet in diameter ; the crimson-flowered Eucalyp- 
tus ficifolia of West Australia ; Rhododendron Falcon- 
eri, Hooker, from Upper India, fifty feet high, leaves, 
eighteen inches long. In the sassafras gullies, here 
alluded to, also may be planted the great Melaleuca 
Leucadendron, L., the true Asiatic Cajuput-tree, 
which grows toa height of one hundred feet; even 
the North European Holly (Rex Aquifolium), which 
occasionally rises to sixty feet, though both from re- 
gions so distant. 
Liquidambar Altingia, Blume.—At the Red Sea 
and in the mountains of India and New Guinea, at 
three thousand feet, and probably hardy in the warmer 
parts of our colony. ‘The tree attains a height of two 
hundred feet. It yields the fragrant balsam known 
as liquid storax. 
Liquidambar styraciflua, L.—The Sweet Gum-tree. 
In morasses and on the springs of the forests of North 
America, with a wide geographic range. ‘The tree 
attains vast dimensions of its crown; the stem ten 
feet in diameter. The terebinthine juice hardens, 
on exposure, toa resin of benzoinodor. Wood, fine- 
grained. 
Macadamia ternifolia, F. von Muell. (Helicia terni- 
folia, F, M.)—The Nut-tree of sub-tropic East Austra- 
lia, attaining a height of sixty feet ; hardy, as far 
south as Melbourne ; in our forest valleys likely of 
fair celerity of growth. The nuts have the taste of 
hazels. 
Morus rubra, L.—The Red Mulberry-tree of North 
