SHE-OAK 



Bark. Deeply . fissured, corky, about J inch thick : light 

 brown, rather hard : exhibits prominent rays, which are very 

 striking in radial section, and are connected with the rays of the 

 wood by a " tongue and groove." 



Uses, etc. " One of the most elegant furniture woods, . . . 

 shingles" (80). "Good furniture wood, . . . easy to split, . . ■ 

 durable " (17). Saws hard, without smell : planes easily and 

 smoothly. Requires care in seasoning, as it is liable to split to 

 the heart : a wood well worth attention. 



Authorities. F. von Mueller (80), p. 15. Bailey (5). Brown 

 (17). Sometimes confused with Oak, and frequently with C. 

 torulosa and other She-Oaks. 



Colour. Reddish-white, light red, pinkish : well defined from, 

 though not strongly contrasting with, the light -brown sap-wood, 

 which is from i-i£ inches wide. 



Anatomical Characters. Transverse section : — 



Pores. Need lens, very inconspicuous, size 2-3 : considerable 

 variation in the ring, and increasing a little in size as the tree 

 ages : irregularly distributed, scarcely more than a suggestion of 

 the dendritic form : few 0-20 per sq. mm. : single, isolated : ap- 

 pear as perforations : not confined to one -part of the ring : often 

 strung upon the lines of soft- tissue like beads, but in ones and 

 twos, not as continuous loops of pores. 



Rays. Two sizes, the larger very striking, the smaller fine and 

 obscure : large rays, size 00, widening continually outwards to 

 over 2 mm. wide : tongued-and-grooved into the rays of the 

 bark : few 10-12 per inch : similar in colour but more lustrous 

 than the ground : not very large-celled, but very many-rowed : 

 enclosed pores doubtful or rare. The small rays a pore-width 

 apart, very fine, size 5-6 : 12-15 per mm. 



Rings. Apparently prominent, but really vague : the different 

 spacing of the lines of the soft- tissue may indicate the boundaries. 



Soft-tissue. Prominent in fine white or brown lines, concentric- 

 ally connecting the larger rays : coarse celled : convex outwards 

 (crenate), connecting the pores in a string : also encircling the 

 pores. 



Radial Section. Pores scarce, dully shining lines, occasionally 

 sinuous. Rays unusually prominent, dull, rather deeper coloured 

 broad flakes. Rings not indicated. 



Tangential Section. As the Radial, but the rays instead of being 

 flakes are prominent, considerably deeper-coloured, frequently- 

 interrupted spindles apout ij inches high. In this section they 

 appear to distort the fibres of the ground-tissue as though they 

 were threaded through them. 



Type specimen authenticated by the Forest Officer to the 

 Government of Western Australia. 



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