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Stringybarks. 



1. Eucalyptus macrorrhyncha (Red Stringybark). 



2. Eucalyptus capitellata (Brown Stringybark). 



3. Eucalyptus eugenioides (White Stringybark). 



Eucalyptus macrorrhyncha, E.v.M. 

 RED STRINGYBAKK. 



Botanical Name. Macrorrhyncha, from two Greek words, maliros, long, 

 and rrynchos, a beak, in allusion to the long, beaked flower-bud. 



Vernacular Names. It is usually known as " Stringybark " merely, but 

 by comparison with E. eugenioides as "Red Stringybark." .According to 

 Howitt, it is known as " Mountain Stringybark " in Gippsland, a name to 

 which in this State the other Stringybarks have also some claim. It is the 

 common Stringybark of the north-eastern districts of Victoria, and appears 

 to be quite absent from the coast districts of New South Wales. 



Fruits. The fruit has usually a sharp rim, but in northern and Avestern 

 New South Wales specimens this is not always the case, the rim being often 

 rounded and even domed. 



Timber. Hard, and mostly tinged with a deeper red-brownish coloration, 

 but occurs also paler coloured; it is durable, and easily fissile into fence- 

 rails, shingles, and palings, and is very useful for all purposes for which 

 rough split timber is required above ground ; it is also sawn into weatherboards 

 and scantlings, and furnishes a fair fuel. This timber seems not to be 

 different from that of E. capitellata. It is the common Goldfields Stringy- 

 bark, and its timber is brown. A sample from the Monaro, New South 

 Wales, is an excellent furniture wood, being light, strong, and close-grained, 

 and capable of a good polish. It is, however, chiefly used for fencing and 

 wheelwrights' work in southern New South Wales. 



Here are two reports by experts on timber of ascertained botanical origin. 



" The common Stringybark of Central and North-eastern Victoria is of less 

 value as a timber tree than other Stringybarks. (A. W. Howitt.) 



" Red Stringybark. E. macrorrhynclia. A good and durable timber, as may 

 be seen from the examination of the fences in the district, which are nearly 

 all of this timber, and some of them very old." (Henry Deane, reporting on 

 the timbers of the Glen Innes to Tenterfield railway line, N.S.W., 1885.) 



Size. A large tree. 



Habitat. E. macrorrhyncha is found in Victoria' (where the type came 

 from), South Australia, New South Wales, and southern Queensland!. 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



In this State it is found along the Dividing Range and Tableland from 

 south to north. It goes down 'the western slopes, and on the spurs of the 

 main range, and on the isolated ranges some distance into the interior. 

 The most westerly localities actually recorded are the Harvey and Warrum- 

 bungle. Ranges. 



