126 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



names of Reule or Rauli. Of still more colossal size than 

 the Roble. Wood fissile, but well adapted for staves ; it is 

 finer in grain than that of F. obliqua, and much used for 

 furniture (Dr. Philippi). 



Fagus silvatica, 



The deciduous Beech of Britain, of most other parts of Europe 

 and extra-tropical Asia. The trunk has been measured in 

 height 118 feet, the head 350 feet in diameter; the wood is 

 hard, extensively used by joiners and ship-builders and the 

 manufacturers of various implements, especially for planes, 

 shoe-lathes, keys and cogs of machinery, lathe-chucks, gun- 

 stocks, staves, also for carved moulds and for wooden letters in 

 large prints ; it is of rather difficult cleavage, great compact- 

 ness and considerable strength, and resists great pressure. 

 Beech tar contains a considerable proportion of paraffine ; the 

 ash from any portion of this tree is rich in phosphate of lime. 

 An allied Beech, Fagus Sieboldii, Endl., occurs in Japan. All 

 these could in the warmer temperate zones be grown to advan- 

 tage only in springy mountain forests. 



Fatsia papyrifera, Bentham. (Araliapapyrifora, Hooker; Panax 

 jpapyrifer, F. v. Mueller.) 



Island of Formosa. The Bice Paper Plant, hardy in the low- 

 lands of Victoria, and of scenic effect in garden plantations ; 

 the pith furnishes the material for the so-called rice-paper, and 

 for solah hats. 



Ferula galbaniflua, Boissier. 



Persia; on mountains 4,000 to 8,000 feet high. This tall 

 perennial herb might be transferred to Alpine regions, for 

 obtaining locally from it the gum-resin galbanum. 



Ferula longifolia, Fischer. 



South Russia. The aromatic long roots furnish a pleasant 

 vegetable (Dr. Rosenthal). 



Festuca Coiron, Steudel. 



Chili. A valuable perennial fodder grass, according to the 

 testimony of Dr. Philippi. 



Festuca dives, F. v. Mueller. 



Victoria, from West Gippsland to Dandenong and the sources 

 of the rivers Yarra and Goulburn. One of the most magni- 

 ficent of all sylvan grasses, not rarely 12 feet and exceptionally 



