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Nothofagus Moorei (F.v.M.) Maiden. 
Negro-head Beech. 
CFamily FAGACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus Nothofagus Blume, in Mus. Bot. Ludg. Bat. i, 307 
(1850). 
Male and female flowers single or in three-flowering dichasia in the axils of the foliage leaves : pistils 
short, in heads; scales of the fruiting-calyx, in fours or two parts, and of varied form. Leaves summer 
or winter green, consisting of two rows, folded along the side-nerves or not. 
Botanical description. Species Moarei F.v.M. (of Fagus), Fragm., v, 109. 
Tall tree, nearly glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, crenate. Male flower-heads in the 
lower axils on short recurved peduncles, the involucre irregularly eight totwelve-lobed and mostly splitting. 
Stamens about twenty. Female flower-heads in the upper axils on erect short peduncles, ovoid, glandular, 
containing each three flowers. Ovulary of the two outer flowers three-angular and three-winged, of the 
inner flower flattened and two-winged. Fruiting involucre about 5 lines long. (Moore and Betche, Har.db. 
Fl. N.S.W., p. 85, 1893.) 
I have quite satisfied myself that the separation of Nothofagus from Fagus is 
justifiable. 
Cheeseman, who knows the New Zealand Beeches well, writes : 
Fajus proper, including the Beeches of the northern hemisphere, and which have comparatively 
large leaves, many-flowered male-heads or catkins, and large-fruiting involucres ; the other, Nothofagus, 
comprising the species from the southern hemisphere, in all of which the leaves are small, the male-heads 
one-two flowered, and the fruiting involucres very small indeed. 
Botanical NaiUC. It was found by Mr. Carron and Mr. W. A. B. Greaves 
in 1865 on the Upper Clarence, and Mr. Charles Moore, desiring to commemorate 
Mr. Carron in regard to it, called it Fagus Carroni. Baron von Mueller, however, 
described it under the name of F. Moorei. I cannot find that F. Carroni Moore 
was ever formally described, but Mr. Moore freely distributed it under that name, 
and printed it in his and Mr. Betche's " Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales," 
p. 85. 
Vernacular Names. " True or Negro-head Beech" of New South Wales, 
the latter name being given owing to the rich dark colour of the foliage. Sometimes 
called " Mountain Beech." I have heard it called Red Beech. 
