EUCALYPTUS TREES. 481 
to the lower silurian sandstone and slate formation 
with ironstone and quartz. It is rich in kino. E. 
sideroxylon is a synonim. 
Eucalyptus maculata, Hooker.—The spotted gum-- 
tree of New South Wales and South Queensland. A 
lofty tree, the wood of which is employed in ship- 
building, wheelwrights’ and coopers’ work. The 
heartwood as strong as that of British oak (Rev. Dr. 
Woolls). 
Eucalyptus obliqua, |’ Heritier.* — The ordinary 
stringy-bark tree, attaining gigantic dimensions. The 
most extensively distributed and most gregarious of 
all-Eucalypts ; from Spencer’s Gulf to the southern 
part of New South Wales, and in several varieties 
designated by splitters and other wood - workers by 
different names; most extensively used for cheap 
fencing-rails, palings, shingles, and any other rough 
wood-work, not to be sunk underground nor requir- 
ing great strength or elasticity. The bulk of wood 
obtained from this tree in very poor soil is perhaps 
larger than that of any other kind, and thus this spe- 
cies can be included even here, where it is naturally 
common and easily redisseminated, among the trees 
for new forest plantations in barren, woodless tracts 
of our own country, to yield readily and early a sup- 
ply of cheap and easily fissile wood. 
Eucalyptus paniculata, Smith. — The White Iron- 
bark tree of New South Wales. All the trees of this 
series are deserving of cultivation, as their wood, 
though always excellent, is far from alike, and that 
of each species preferred for special purposes of the 
artisans. 
Eucalyptus Pheenicea, F. v. Mueller.* — Carpenta- 
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