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As the timber is very little used in this neighbourhood, not much value is placed upon it. It does 
not stand in the ground as well as the white variety, and there are too many knots in it to make it useful 
for sawing or building.—(Forester Postlethwaite, Grenfell.) 
This tree does not grow nearly as large as the White Pine, is of a darker colour, and is not much 
used, being more brittle and liable to split. The knots are more numerous than in White Pine and have 
a great tendency to fall out when the timber is seasoned. Builders will not use this pine at any time 
when the white is available.—(Forester Smith, Dubbo.) 
A distinguishing feature of this pine is the large quantity of resin which gathers in the interstices 
of the bark ; it shows a decided increase of girth at the butt. Less durable than the other pines, being 
spongy, subject to dry-rot, and is in consequence little used.—(District Forester Marriott, Dubbo.) 
The Black Pine, a decidedly inferior timber, spongy, and of no durability. The timber is dark, also 
the branchlets and fruit-pods, which are quite black. It decays in the ground in two years. It can be 
distinguished from the other varieties for weeks after it is cut, as it glistens along the face of the timber 
like thousands of minute diamonds. The knots of the Black Pine are not so large, but are much more 
plentiful throughout the tree; again, the Black Pine invariably grows on the southern and western slopes 
of the mountains. It is also much more highly scented than the other pines when being cut.—(J. V. de Coque, 
speaking chiefly of the Western Pine.) 
It seems to stand fairly well in the ground when used for verandah posts in out-buildings, the 
rule being to erect them with the bark on, which, I am informed, gives them greater durability. When 
required for building purposes here, it is brought from the Tamworth and Gunnedah districts, but it is not 
used to any great extent, although highly useful and ornamental for inside purposes in buildings.—(The 
late Forester Siddins, Armidale.) 
Some Black or Mountain Pine from the Inverell district (District Forester 
Stopford) belonging to this species has hut little figure. As it approaches the 
table-land it appears to lose much of that richness of colour that this species possesses 
on the western plains. Locality lias, of course, much to do with the physical 
properties of timber. 
Size. —It is a small tree, seldom exceeding 30 feet in height and 18 inches in 
diameter.—(Forester Benson, Bega, speaking of Monaro.) 50-60 feet.—(Forester 
Taylor, Wagga Wagga.) 
It is of a stunted habit, and though it attains a height of 50 feet, a tree can seldom be found of 
more than 8 inches in diameter, 3 feet from the ground; thus it is practically useless for milling purposes. 
—(Forester Siddins, Armidale.) 
Habitat. —The type came from— 
Interieur de la Nouvelles Galles du Sud entre 24 et 38° avec le precedent ( G. verrucosa). —(ILBr. 
ex Mirbel, Mem. Mus. Par. xiii, 74, 1825.) 
These specimens were collected by Allan Cunningham in Oxley’s expedition, 
and I have already shown, by an extract from his unpublished journal, that he 
collected his calcarata specimens in the Lachlan River district. 
On the 26th May, 1817, Oxley’s expedition was at Mount Aiton, lat. 33° 55', 
long. 146° 30'. The course had been south-west. On the 25th May the expedition 
was near Mount Aiton (Oxley’s Journal, p. 44.) The expedition was, therefore, in 
the Cocopara Ranges, to the west of Wyalong West. 
Mirbel’s names and brief notes were supplied by Robert Brown, in whose . 
hands Cunningham’s specimens were placed at the time. 
