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hundred and fifty feet without a branch. The wood is very 

 hard and difficult to work. A single plank was imported 

 into Liverpool, intended, but too late, for the Great Exhi- 

 bition ; it measured one hundred feet in length, two feet 

 six inches broad, and three inches in thickness, and sold 

 for more than £100. It is used chiefly for ship-building 

 purposes. 



Eed Gum Wood. Encalyptns resinifera. — Wood very 

 similar to the last, but rarely in such large logs. 



Botany Bay Oak, Beef -wood. He -Oak, She -Oak, 

 and PoEEST Oak, names applied to different species of 

 Casuarina (Nat. Ord. CasuarinacecB) , — The species of which 

 the timber is imported are (7. tomlosa, the Porest-oak; 

 C. paludosa, the Swamp-oak ; C equisetifolia, the He-oak ; 

 and C. stricta, the She-oak and Beef-wood. This pecuHar 

 group of trees, called Botany Bay Oahs, all yield wood of 

 a similar character, and receive the above names indiscrimi- 

 nately. It is ornamental, and well adapted for inlaying and 

 marqueterie ; its colour is a light yellowish-brown, marked 

 often with short veins of a redder colour. 



New Zealand Pine, or Cowdie Pine, Damara Austm- 

 lis, (Nat. Ord. ConifercB,) — This timber is much valued for 

 masts and spars, for which purpose much is imported for 



