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Following are some points in which E. Baueriana and E. polyanihemos Schauer 
differ : 
(a) The bark of E. Baueriana is fibrous, "fuzzy," or woolly; that of E. 
polyanihemos being, as a rule, ribbony rather than Box-like. 
(b) The wood of E. Baueriana is pale brown, and that of E. polyanihemos red. 
(c) The leaves of E. Baueriana are thinner, and the rim of the fruit likewise thinner, 
than that of E. polyanthemos. 
Leaves. The blue-green of the leaves is worthy of special note. 
Bark. The bark is rough to the ultimate branchlets. 
Timber. A few notes will be found under Habitat. It is a pale coloured timber, 
brownish in contradistinction to that of E. polyanihemos, which is red. 
It is a very durable timber, posts in buildings on the South Coast having been 
found to be sound after more than forty years (R. H. Cambage). 
This durability extends also to its fire-resisting qualities. Mr. G. R. Cherry, 
a former inspector for the Fire Underwriters' Association of New South Wales, as the 
result of some tests that he employed, found the present timber to be the best fire- 
resister, being even better than Turpentine (Syncarpia launfolia) in that respect. 
The durability in the ground, taken in conjunction with its resistance to fire, 
renders it almost an ideal timber for fencing purposes. Land-owners having clumps 
of these trees on their property should think twice before destroying them. Small 
and middle sized trees are objects of beauty, and should have some consideration on 
that account. 
Size. It is a tree of medium size, not one of the largest of the Eucalypts. It 
attains a height of, say, 70 feet, and a stem diameter of 3 feet. 
Habitat. It is impossible to absolutely define the range of this species, as 
regards the normal form, as it imperceptibly runs into a variety conica, which will be 
dealt with in the next Part. 
It extends from eastern Victoria, along eastern New South Wales, to southern 
Queensland. It has been found in eastern New South Wales as far north as Singleton, 
and then it has been recorded from the head-waters of the Macleay, near Uralla. Then 
there is a great gap until New England, at the Queensland border, is reached. It is 
obvious that connecting localities require to be searched for. 
VICTORIA. 
E. polyanthema.- Of this type there are two varieties, which, however, are not sufficiently marked 
to justify me in separating them, as I have done in other cases. Where it occurs in the littoral districts, as, 
for instance, at the Lakes' Entrance, or river flats at Heyfield or Bruthen, it has full foliage of a rather 
dark green colour, and the leaves somewhat thin in texture. The tree grows to some size, but in niany 
cases, as Baron von Mueller has already pointed out, become so hollow as to form a mere shell. (A. W, 
Howitt in " The Eucalypts of Gippsland," Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, ii, 96 (1890). 
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