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“Blue Gum” and “Flooded Gum,” Booral.—In specimens of the two trees 
sent from this district, the fruits of Blue Gum are subcylindrical, while those of 
Flooded Gum are more conical. At the same time, I do not consider these 
differences permanent. 
“ Flooded Gum,” Fort Macquarie.—Fruits conical; other “Flooded Gum ” 
fruits from same place are large, of the same shape and size as Sydney forms, hut 
covered with a hloom. 
On the Uielimond River there are two kinds of fruits in this species. They 
differ greatly in regard to size, hut careful examination shows that they do not 
differ in any essential particular. 
Small-fruited form:—Lismore and Ballina (also at Mullumhimhy, on the 
Brunswick River). 
Large-fruited form :—Lismore. 
Bark. —The Blue Gum is a smooth-harked tree, hut it has more or less 
fibrous hark near the hutt. Sometimes the fibrous hark is almost as absent as in 
the case of a White Gum, while in the case of some South Coast trees it extends so 
far up the trunk as to make the confusion between this species and Eucalyptus 
longifolia (the Woolly Butt) excusable. “Some trees smooth and whitish, others are 
rough-harked for a considerable height, occasionally to 40 feet.” (A. R. Crawford, 
New England.) 
Timber. —One of the best hardwoods of the State, usually of a pale red 
colour, straight in the grain, comparatively easy to work, and, therefore, a favourite 
with carpenters. The timber is of a lower specific gravity than that of most 
Eucalypts, being not very close-grained. It is largely used by shipwrights and 
wheelwrights, and is a very useful hardwood. It is extensively used for building 
purposes, ships’ planks, &c., and is the most widely used of our timbers for felloes 
of wheels. Although this timber varies a good deal in quality, much of it, and 
particularly that found in the northern parts of the State, is very durable, and has 
been used for wood blocks with much success. I confidently recommend sound, 
mature, Sydney Blue Gum for this important purpose. 
The late Rev. Dr. Woolls informed me that a coffin made of it Avas found to 
be in a sound state after fifty years. 
In the Nelligen (Clyde Rh r er) district, where it is knoAvn as Redwood, it is 
used by wheelwrights chiefly for felloes, and the local saAv-millers often go long 
distances for it. It is a favourable timber for inside Avork. On the South Coast 
this tree strongly resembles the Woolly Butt in the trunk, and the trees are hence 
often confused, local residents calling both Eucalyptus saligna and longifolia 
“Woolly Butt” with delightful impartiality; but Woolly Butt for E. saligna is 
wrong, and is, I repeat, the result of confusion. On the South Coast the Redwood 
