EUCALYPTI. 



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Asphodelus 

 rajttosiis. 



foliage is 

 sunlight, 

 breeze, a 

 the Euca- 

 to effect in 

 are among 

 Australia 



tf^' Like so man}- otlier Australian 



''■"""7 trees they cast but little shadow 



^..-j; on the ground. The llowers 



M ' iE-jcfe^ are so small and inconspicu- 



_. ous that onlv the expert eye 



' could find them. The 



^^^ " wood of the Casuarina is 



remarkable for its great hardness and 



weight, and was for this reason used 



by the aborigines for making their 



, war-clubs. — Another Australian 



genus which has been 



spread with great rapi- 



dit\- all oxer the Ri\'iera 



the last decades, is that 



of the Eucah ptiis. The Mortola 



garden has manv different 



species. The most commonh' 



inet with on the Mediterranean is 



II. glohiiliis. Eucah'pti also afford 



little shade : their leaves are indeed 



fairly large, but tlie\' hang perpendicularly 



on long stalks so that even -when the 



dense it cannot completely shut out the 



And as the trees arc stirred bv the lightest 



peculiar, tremulous twilight reigns under 



lyptus : this however can onh" be seen 



forests of these trees. The Eucah'pti 



the giants of the A^egetable World. In 



trees of H. aiingdahiia have been found 



