20 TASMANIAN FORESTS: THEIR BOTANY AND ECONOMICAL VALUE, 
qientihens, a labiate of very pretty flowers but most offensive : 
3) seems to be given off from a fag resinous exuda- 4 
Hon abounding in the branches and leave e same shrub is’ 
very common in the bs of the wae and Shoslwras 
ae ay. abandon’. and equally offensive. It is 
asmania, bu never noticed it amon 
producing forests of Tasmania ; indeed there are but few species 
common to all three. Those found gaat fe in Victoria and 
Tasmania are not common in New South Wales, and those 
common in the forests of the latter Colony are either absent 
m Tasmania or from Victoria. Of course this is apeanine in 
eral wa dt 
Leptospernum lanigera, Daviesia ge eS D. ulicina, Hakea 
pugioniformis, Gleichenia dicarpa, G. flabellata, and a fow others. 
Before I pass on to the consideration of the timber products 
I may say a word here as to what I regard as the cause of the 
singular height and straightness of the Euealypti i in these forests. 
This is a peculiarity almost restricted to Tasmania and Victoria. 
The trees grow to a great height in the forests of New South 
Wales, but Stbing like the altitude they attain in the other 
Colonies. In this respect the greatest height seems to be 
reached in Victori i 
he 
this (to m my mind the most se wonderful ae of the Buoclyptes 
ness and moisture 
