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Timber. It is n pale-colon red fissile, easily- worked timber, with little 

 figure or colour, and but slightly aromatic. It is said to be white-ant resist- 

 ing. It is used for indoor purposes, for weatherboards, deals, battens, 

 <md other small scantlings. It is light and useful, and was much used for 

 shingles in tin- early days. 



Size. I T p to a height of 10 or GO feet, with a trunk diameter of 1 to 2 

 fret, in the Ellenborough Falls country. A tree was measured with a girtli 

 of ]j> feet :J inches (:', feet from the ground). Growing 1,800 to 2,000 feet 

 abort 1 sea-level on Bulga Mountain, head of Ellenborough River. " It was a. 

 splendid tree, 150 feet high, and full of vigour." (G. R. Hill, Bungay, 

 \Vingham, 27th November, IflOfi.) Mr. Ilardimau says that in the Com- 

 hoyne it grows to an average height of oO feet, and a diameter of 2 feet. 



Habitat. Eastern Australia from the Stroud district, New South Wales. 

 to Northern Queensland. 1 have received it from near Cairns from Mr. S. 

 Pixon. l! is found quite close to the coast and westerly to the coast range. 



Callitris verrucosa, K.Br. 



Botanical Name. Verrucosa, Latin, " full of warts," referring to the 

 tubercles or swellings at the back of the fruits. 



Vernacular Name. "Mallee Pine" is a name given to it in western 



Xc\v South Wales. 



Fruit. The tubercles on the backs of the valves are a characteristic which 

 renders this species easy of determination. These tubercles vary in size a 

 good deal. In some fruits they are few; in others as crowded as it is possible 

 for them to be. 



I might mention a peculiarity of this pine is that the cones are borne in 

 thick clusters for the most part directly on the larger limbs instead of towards 

 the end of smaller branches us in the common (White) pine. (It. O. Moore, 

 < 'oan Downs). 



The same observation as to fruiting on old wood has been made by Mr. 

 Boorman in regard to this specie-. 



Timber. This species is too small for timber. I have a note that a 

 Dimple of "Rock Pine" from the Daubeney Ranges, where the trees are 

 Ji>-^5 feet high, and fi-12 inches in diameter, is a splendid working timber, 

 close-grained, and very showy. I have not seen twigs for many years, and 

 perhaps a reader may forward me cones to see if the "Rock Pine" be 

 identical with the u Mallee Pino" or no. 



Size. A shrub 10 to 12 feet high, with spreading horizontal branches 

 resembling a Cypress. (J. Duff.) 



Small stunted pine, similar in growth to mallee, growing among mallee on 

 I'.ygo Kim, 30 feet, high, spreading. (Forester Taylor, Wagga Wagga.) 



Its manner of growth appears to he much after the style of Whipstick Mallee. 

 !.( ., il has practically no trunk, the branches all springing from a bole or 

 stump dose to the ground, und being of a decidedly spreading nature. (Mr. 

 IJ. O. Moore, Conn Downs. Mount Hope.) 



Size (and Habitat). 



This tree differs somewhat from a Mallee ( E lira ////>/ us) in its form of growth, 

 as it usually has a trunk, though at times only a few inches in length, and 

 seldom more than ( inches. Often it begins to spread level with the surface 

 of the ground, but it always had the appearance of brain-hint; rather than 

 sending up separate stems like a Mallee. 



