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STRINGY-BARK. 



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STRINGY- BARK* (fi. ohUqud) 



is of straight growth, and takes its name from the strip- 

 like character of its bark. It is very abundant in Aus- 

 tralia and Van Diemen's Land, and flourishes well in 

 any situation, provided the soil be dry. It attains a 

 height of from lOO to 230 "feet, with a diameter of from 

 3 to 15 feet. 



The wood is of a brown colour, hard, heavy, strong, 

 close, and straight in the grain. It works up well, and 

 is much employed in the colonies in ship-building, for 

 planking, beams, keels, and keelsons, and in civil archi- 

 tecture for joists, flooring, &c. Upon the farms it is 

 used for fences and agricultural implements ; it is also 

 employed for furniture and for all ordinary purposes, 

 and is probably the most generally used of all Eucalypts. 



The Stringy-bark is liable to the peculiar defect 

 noticed in the Jarrah, and described at p. 232. In a 

 specimen of this wood obtained in 1842 from "Cook's 

 tree" in a forest bordering on Adventure Bay, Van 

 Diemen's Land, there are several imperfect annual 

 layers, which are partially filled with a reddish resinous 



* This name is given in Australia to at least a dozen different species of 

 Eucalyptus. 



