ADDITIONS 
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Eucalyptus goniocalyx, F. v. Mueller. 
From Cape Otway to the southern parts of New South Wales. 
A large tree which should he included among those for new 
plantations. Its wood resembles in many respects that of E. 
globulus. For house building, fence rails and similar purposes 
it is extensively employed in those forest districts where it 
is abundant, and has proved itself a valuable timber. 
Eucalyptus hemiphloia, F. v. Mueller. 
New South Wales and South Queensland. To he regarded as a 
timber tree of great excellence, on the authority of the Rev. 
Dr. Woolls. It is famous for the hardness and toughness of its 
timber, which is used for shafts, spokes, plough beams and 
similar utensils. 
Eucalyptus Leucoxylon, F. v. Mueller. 
The ordinary iron-bark tree of Victoria and some parts of South 
Australia and New South Wales. As the supply of its very 
durable timber is falling short, and as it is for some purposes 
superior to that of almost any other Eucalypt , the regular culture 
of this tree over wide areas should be fostered, especially as it 
can be raised on stony ridges not readily available for ordinary 
husbandry. The wood is sometimes pale, or in other localities 
rather dark. The tree is generally restricted to the lower 
Silurian sandstone, and slate formation with ironstone and quartz. 
It is rich in Kino. E. sideroxylon is a synonym. 
Eucalyptus maculata, Hooker. 
The spotted gum tree of New South Wales and South Queens- 
land. A lofty tree, the wood of which is employed in ship- 
building, wheelwrights’ and coopers’ work. The heartwood as 
strong as that of British Oak (Rev. Dr. Woolls). 
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 different names ; most extensively used 
for cheap fencing rails, palings, shingles and any other rough 
wood work, not to be sunk underground nor requiring great 
strength or elasticity. The hulk 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 own 
country, to yield readily and early a supply of cheap and easily 
fissile wood. 
