UEKCH. 



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and in Vienna, in the latter district being often stained. Burning 

 rapidly with a bright flame, it is the chief fuel on the Continent 

 of Europe. It also yields one of the best gunpowder-charcoals. 

 It is in great request among turners for tool-handles, wooden 

 screws, wheel cogs (for which it ranks next to Hornbeam), shoe- 

 lasts, printers' rollers, wood type, knife-handles and bobbins, and 

 makes excellent wedges. In France and Germany it is considered 

 the best of all woods, except Walnut, for sabots and wooden 

 soles, for which purpose it is " smoked " over branches and chips 



FIG. 47. Tangential section of Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), highly magnified. 



of beech, so as to become charged with pyroligneous acid, when it 

 is extremely impermeable. It is imported from Holland and 

 Germany to our eastern ports. 



The name is applied in Australia to Trochocdrpa laurina 

 R. Br. [See Barranduna], Flindtrsia austrdlis R. Br. [See 

 Flindosa], F. Odeydna F. v. M. [See Jack, Long], Tristdnia 

 laurina R. Br. [See Box, Bastard], Schizomdria ovdta D. Don [See 

 Coach-wood], Moirfloca elliptica R. Br. [See Wallang-unda], 



