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fostered, especially as it can be raised on stony ridges not 

 readily available for ordinary husbandry. The wood is some- 

 times pale, or in other localities rather dark. The tree is gene- 

 rally restricted to the lower Silurian sandstone and slate for- 

 mation with ironstone and quartz. It is rich in kino. E. 

 Leucoxylon has, next to E. rostrata, thriven best about Luck- 

 now (in India) among the species tried there for forest-culture. 

 E. sideroxylon is a synonym. 



Eucalyptus maculata. Hooker. 



The Spotted Gum-tree of New South "Wales and South 

 Queensland. A lofty tree, the wood of which is employed 

 in ship-building, wheehviight's and cooper's work. The 

 heartwood as strong as that of British Oak (Rev. Dr. 

 Woolls). 



Eucalyptus marginata, Smith.* 



The J arrah or Mahogany-tree of South-West Australia, famed 

 for its indestructible wood, which is attacked neither byChelura 

 nor Teredo nor Termites, and therefore so much sought for 

 jetties and other structures exposed to sea- water, also for any 

 underground work, and largely exported for railway-sleepers. 

 Vessels built of this timber have been enabled to do away 

 with all copper-plating. It is very strong, of a close grain and 

 a slightly oily and resinous nature; it works well, makes a 

 fine finish, and is by shipbuilders here considered sujDerior to 

 either Oak, Teak, or indeed any other wood. . The tree grows 

 chiefly on ironstone ranges. At Melbourne it is not quick of 

 growth, if compared to our Blue Gum (E. globulus, Lab.) 

 or to our Stringybark (E. obliqua, I'Her.), but it is likely to 

 grow with celerity in our ranges. Instances are on record of 

 the stem having attained a girth of 60 feet at 6 feet from the 

 ground through the formation of buttresses. 



Eucalyptus obliqua, L'Heritier.^ 



The ordinary Stringybark tree, attaining gigantic dimensions. 

 The most extensively distributed and most gregarious of all 

 Eucalypts, from Spencer's Gulf to the southern parts of New 

 South Wales, and in several varieties designated by splitters 

 and other wood-workers by difierent names ; most extensively 

 iised for cheap fencing rails, palings, shingles and any other 

 rough wood-work, not to be sunk undergTOund nor requiring 

 great streng-th or elasticity. The bulk of wood obtained 

 from this tree in very poor soil is perhaps larger than that of 

 any other kind, and thus this species can be included even 

 here, where it is naturally common and easily redisseminated, 

 among the trees for new forest-plantations in barren woodless 

 tracts of our omi country, to yield readily and early a supply 

 of cheap and easily fissile wood. 



