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It is not easy to define what New England really is. I have attempted to 

 define it- in my Presidential Address before the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales, vol. xxvi. TOG (1901), and the following note from Mr. Stop- 

 ford is interesting. The canons of eastern New England are full of this 

 pine, but it hardly comes on to the comparatively fiat tableland. 



With reference to the growth of pine on the falls of Xew Kngland, I always 

 consider that New England commences on the south, about Walcha, and 

 extends to Deepwater <>n the north, at both of which places ravines come up; 

 from Taimvorlh and Apsley Falls on the south, and from Bolivia on the north, 

 the same country and conditions prevailing all along the western falls. It is 

 in these places that pine is found, but I do not think it is found, or at least 

 can generally be considered to be on the true tableland; at any rate, I do not 

 know of it. upon what I would call this class of country. 



'Thirty-five miles from 'Grafton, near Palmorton. on the Little River. 

 Plenty on the rocky banks. Sent to the mill at South (irafton. (J. L. 

 Boornum and J.II.M.) ; Mmvell ( Ii. Hart) ; Warialda (II. M. R. Rupp, J. L. 

 Boorman. J.II.M.); Acacia Creek. Macphersou Range (W. Dunn). 



Pokolbin, a few miles south-west of Maitland (R. H. Cambage) is the 

 most easterly locality in that district know to me. 



Callitris cupresslformis, Vent. 



Botanical Name. Cupressiformis, Latin, cypress-like. 



Vernacular Name. "Port Jackson Pine" (with Miiclleri); "Oyster Bay 

 Pine " of Tasmania. 



Timber. Not a highly figured Cypress pine timber; none of the coastal- 

 grown pines appear to have much figure. " Wood soft, not supposed to be 

 durable." (Sir William Macarthur, speaking of the Sydney district.) 

 Timber from the Dorrigo is of very little figure, nearly as plain as that of 

 C. Macleayana, and but slightly aromatic. Backhouse (Narraiirr. p. 142) 

 ike of it as affording narrow-plank and small timber, which is useful m 

 building, but not easy to work, being liable to splinter; it has an aromatic 

 smell. 



The Tasmanian timber (Oyster P.ay Pine) is used for telegraph poles. 

 The bark must always be stripped as soon as cut, otherwise insects get in 

 and destroy the timber. The above notes 1 obtained at Oyster Bay. 



Wood of little use. said to be obnoxious to bugs, from its resinous odour. 

 (Fl. Tas.) 



Timl>er strong and durable, used for furniture, planks, weatherboards, 

 battens, &c. (Cat. Col. and ImL Exli., 1880.) 



Size. Usually a tree of 30 or 40 feet in height, with a stem diameter of 

 about a foot. The largest tree measured by District Forester Rotton at 

 Tomerong, N.S.W., was 1,"> inches in diameter. 



Habitat. Found in New South Wales. Victoria, South Australia, and 

 Tasmania. Usually it is found in rocky situations not far from the coast. 

 It would appear that its most inland localities are in Victoria. 



Specific localities in New South Wales are the Dorrigo district (head of 

 the Bellinger River here it is somewhat scattered and limited in quantity, 

 according to District Forester F. H. Wilshire; Kinchela, Port Maequarie, 

 Port Jackson (including the site of the present Government House), 

 George's River, Port Hacking, and the National Park. The most southerly 

 locality known to me is that recorded by District Forester Rotton, at Parma 

 Creek, near Tomerong, Shoalhaven district. 



