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Maiden, 1914. — The use of the designation " Brown " seems to have been omitted 

 from classification until 1914, when (Federal Handbook for the British Association 

 Meeting, p. 187) I suggested their grouping into red, brown, and pale, and added the 

 following brief note : — • 



Red timbers may be found both in the interior (e.g., E. rostrala Schlccht. E. microtheca F.v.M., 

 E. salmonophloia F.v.M.), or in the comparatively well-watered coastal districts (E. marginata Sm., 

 E. resinifera Sm., E. saligna Sm.); but in the dry districts of eastern Western Australia, the timber is 

 nearly always cigar-brown in colour. The pale timber (e.g., E. pilularis Sm., E. microcorys F.v.M., 

 E. gomphocephala DC.) is mainly found in well- watered districts. 



In the New South Wales Handbook for the British Association, p. 440, I 

 emphasised the reference to brown timbers a little more — 



Others may be brownish of shades, such as Blue Box, Baueriana; Grey Box. hcmipJiloia; Shiny- 

 leaved Box, pojnilifolia. Some are very pale, almost white, such as Blackbutt, pilt'daris ; New England 

 Blackbutt, Andrewsi; Mountain Ash, Sicberiana, giganka; but a hard-and-fast line cannot be drawn 

 between the pale and the brown ones. 



Baker, 1917.— In Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., li, p. 410, with Plate XX, Mr. R. T. 

 Baker uses colour in the discrimination of some of the Ironbarks, but in my view the 

 colour-photographs are not quite satisfactory. My observations as to the unsatis- 

 factoriness of using colour for diagnostic purposes in these Ironbarks, are given in 

 Part XL VIII, p. 225, of the present work. 



To the notes on variation in timber there given, may be added the following 

 reference to E. Andrewsi — 



Varies very much in quality according to soil and altitude. Timber growing on granite formation, 

 and at a high altitude, is pale in colour and harder than the same timber at a lower altitude on soil of a 

 basaltic formation. Where growing on the latter, the timber generally is a pale brown colour, denser and 

 heavier than the former. (Forest Guard N. Stewart, Glen Innes district.) 



Baker, 1919. — In Mr. Baker's " Hardwoods of Australia," at p. 3, we have some 

 preliminary remarks on colour, and the following are extracted from his list of timbers 

 under the various headings. I have collected the nomenclature adopted by Mr. Baker. 



1. Dark Red. 



E. qffinis. E. punctata. 



E. Cambageana. E. redunca. 



E. Dawsoni. E. resinifera. 



E. Fergusoni (paniculata). E. r'ostrata. 



E. longicornis. E. salmonophloia. 



E. marginata. E. siderophloia. 



E. microtlieca. E. squamosa. ■ 

 E. polyanlhemos. 



