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seats and tables, one of which we have laid on two trestles in our tent. It forms boats, and spouts and 
shoots for water. You see large shoots of it to convey the water from the diggers' holes, or to their washing 
places. A few sheets of canvas, or a few blankets, eked out by sheets of stringy-bark, form numbers of 
temporary abodes at the diggings. You sec numbers of stringy-bark trees standing with the bark stripped 
off for six or eight feet high, and others felled, and completely stripped. The wood is not less useful. It 
has the property of easily cleaving, and splits up readily into posts and rails, into slabs for the walls of 
huts, or into anything that you want. Therefore, there is a great destruction of this tree, and fortunately 
there is no lack of it. It burns very well quite green, so that it supplies fuel at hand. (Hewitt's Two 
Vears in Victoria, vol. 1, p. 177.) 
For a further botanical account ol this species see my Grit. Rev. genus Eucalyptus, 
Part viii. 
No. 117. Part XXXII. See also vol. iv, p. 171. 
Acacia Cambagei R. T. Baker. 
THE GIDGEE. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^; : MIMOSA.) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
Group of Gidgee. Cowan Downs, 120 miles south of Normanton, N. Qld, (Photo, R. H. Cambage). 
No. 127. Part XXXV. See also vol. iv, p. 171. 
Amucaria Cunninghamii Ait. 
RICHMOND RIVER OR HOOP PINE. 
(Family CONIFERS.) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Bark of Hoop Pine Tree. Dorrigo Scrubs, N.S.W. (Photo, S. W. Jackson.) 
Hoop Pine. Richmond Range, near Casino. Girth, 21 ft. 3 in., measured at 2 feet from ground, 
18 ft. 6 in. at 5 feet from the ground. Length of barrel about 50 feet to where tree forks. (Photo received 
from District Forester F. S. Boyd, Casino, N.S.W.) 
No. 140. Part XXXVIII. See also vol. iv, p. 172. 
Eucalyptus microcorys F.v.M. 
THE TALLOW-WOOD. 
(Family MYRTACE^;.) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
Tallow-wood Tj-ee, 42 feet girth. Hill Bros. Estate, Comboyne, N.S.W. (Photo by E. Kent, and 
presented by Mr. G. S. Hill, Bungay, Wiugham.) 
For a further botanical account of this species, see my Grit, Rev, genus 
Eucalyptus, Part ix. 
