NOTE. 
The better known local names of the principal kinds of timber 
trees are added, but as the same appellations are so frequently 
given to different trees, it becomes evident that this kind of 
nomenclature alone is totally unreliable. The conflicting state- 
ments as to the value of some of the timbers are explained by the 
difference caused by the respective climate and character of the soil 
of the locality from which the specimens were taken, as well as the 
time of year when the tree was felled. Many more determinations 
of the yield of charcoal, potash, pyroligneous acid, &c., and of the 
weight of a cubic foot of each variety of wood must be made, 
before an average can be taken. 
No attempt has been made to give English names, by merely 
anglicising phytological ones. This is left to the phytologist, and 
Baron von Mueller has stated, that he has in contemplation the 
construction of vernacular names for all our trees ; these shall be 
English appellations, and bearing a logical meaning free from 
ambiguity, so far as such can be given by translation. 
The following is a list of the more generally used vernacular 
01 common names, in which the repetition of the same numbers 
has reference to the recurrence of different colonial names under 
the same species. A plurality of numbers against a common 
name denotes the recurrence of the same vernacular name as 
applied to different species.* 
Beech, Native or Evergreen 
Blackwood ... 
Blood wood ... 
Bottle-tree ... 
Box, Prickly 
Caper-tree, Native ... 
Currrjong 
Cypress or Sandarac Pine, Mountain 
», Desert 
No. 
108 
15 
80 
43 
44 
45 
163 
49 
51 
w hor example, Blackwood or Lightwood both appear under No. 15 
which rep resents Acacia melanoxylon. Blue Gum is a name applied to 
at least four species of Eucalyptus, under Nos. 79, 83, 84, and 105. 
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