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Habits, §c.: Frequents basaltic soils, generally, in the warmer 
parts of New England, in conjunction with box and apple, _ 
occasional native ¢ iformis). The tr 
is of a rather us habit, and is not common in New England 
Grey Guu.—Gro come ha (specimen No. 
Smooth, blotched dark ft light lead colour ; ns slightly f Sirves 
Rough for —— six feet up ood : Light-coloured, so 
and heavy ; fairly du mg as fencing materi ae Leaf: Five to 
six or seven inches long ; e alternate and some opposite on 
same ome ‘petiole half an inch long ; eras 4 Serene 
and well ed. marginal nerve is narrow, 
three irelkideRined ‘iaegikeaial veins run parallel ve ‘the ‘midnib 
on either side ; the transverse veins form with these a lattice. 
Seed-vessels : Are arranged in umbels of three, four, five, or six 
gum is generally indicative of poor soil ; it enters into combina- 
tion = all the timbers found on granitic formations. 
—Group o. 8.) —Bark : Rough 
at butt, iat after a height of a few "feet, it is smooth and of a 
= green colour; it is thinner than the generality of t 
£ the genus. “ood : The wood is ost useless, except ri 
fuel it is usually very much eaten oy ligidinahatiel 
ae aborigines frequently cut up sm: 
those grubs. : The is alternate. On 
slidcit from the root it is almost circular and large, but in older 
trees it is from three to four inches long and about one inch 
wide, and is lanceolate. It is ribbed very much like the leaf of 
the E. coriacea. Seed-vessel : The peaepancemess are about one- 
of an inch m diameter, and are arranged in umbels of 
— florets, on short pedicels ; the calhenaiae is not more than 
th of an inch long, and ‘about one-sixteenth thick. 
capeuleri is three-celled, and the valves -_ and operculum short. 
Habits, §c.: This tree usually does t exceed a diameter of 
erous 
which assume a diameter 0 spreiente inches or more. The latter 
are of rather a —— habit, and are pretty trees; but the 
smaller ones appear too straggling to be beautiful. It frequents 
argillaceous 
granitic soils with slight mixture of the detritus from 
rocks, and never grews - m watercourses. It is is very 
common on the banks of the Henry River, the Mann, and Mitchell 
Rivers, also on the Severn, above Dundee. All those are cold 
localities in the most elevated portions of New England, and I 
have never seen this tree in warmer regions, nor haye I seen it 
growing in the Rema, of river tea-tree. 
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