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generally indicates a good grazing country. The specific jiame 

 of this tree is rather unfortunate, as many other species are also 

 half-barked. In the Illawarra district, the Box sometimes rises 

 to the height of 180 feet, with a diameter varying from 48 to 72 

 inches, and the timber is reported to be of first rate quality for 

 size, hardness, toughness, and durability, (Sir. W. Macarthur.) 

 It is also " an excellent wood for domestic use, as it burns with 

 great brilliancy, and emits a large amount of heat," but it does 

 not stand long in the ground, as it suffers from dry rot and white 

 ant. The specific gravity is 1'129. Dr. F. Mueller applied the 

 name leucoxylon to this species of Eucalyptus, and in the Report 

 of the Victorian Exhibition (1861), the Box is always called E. 

 leucoxylon. From a remark in the Fragments Phytographice 

 Australia, vol. 2, p. 175, it seems that the Doctor intended to 

 separate from the species, those varieties of Iron Bark, which 

 from similarity of flowers and seed vessels, he had previously 

 associated with it. In the Flora Australiensis, the red flowering 

 Iron Bark is referred to E. leucoxylon, and our Box to E. liemipliloia, 

 but certainly if we regard the colour of the wood, the term 

 leucoxylon is more applicable to the Box than to the Iron Bark. 



(6.) E. bracliypoda is a small tree probably the same as that 

 called " G-oborro, Coorkaroo, or Dwarf Box." Sir T. Mitchell, 

 vol. 2, p. 54, remarks, " The small kind of Eucalyptus, covered 

 with a rough bark, and never exceeding the size of fruit trees in 

 an orchard, and called, I believe, by Mr. Oxley, " the dwarf Box," 

 but by the natives, " Goborro," grows onlj* on plains subject to 

 inundation, and it usually bears on the lower part of the trunk, 

 the mark of the water by which it is at times surrounded* * * 

 The " G-oborro" seldom grows on the banks of a running stream, 

 but seems to thrive in inundations, however long their duration." 



(7.) E. longifolia is usually called " Woollybut," though in 

 some districts, it is called " Peppermint" or " Bastard Box." 

 Probably the name " Peppermint" was given to this tree from 

 the fact of the leaves containing a great quantity of volatile oil 

 with the flavour of Peppermint. It is a very fine tree with leaves 

 exceeding a foot in length. The flowers are rather large, and 

 usually in threes, although a variety sometimes occurs with the 

 flowers smaller and in greater numbers. There is no species of 

 near Sydney with a better defined seed-vessel, Wheu 



