Identifier: tasmanianforestr00penn (find matches)
Title: Tasmanian forestry : timber products and sawmilling industry, a description of timber trees indigenous to Tasmania, their commercial value and process of manufacture, with methods adopted by the government to foster the industry
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Penny, John Compton
Subjects: Forests and forestry Timber
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmania : John Vail, Government Printer
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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and combined with it by Von Mueller and some Con-tinental botanists. Bark smooth above, coarsely scaly below.Leaves broadly oblong, thin, and rather shining, often undulated,equal, or nearly equal, sided, 2 to 4 inches long. Flowers many,in axillary umbels. Operculum hemispheric, with a well-developedapex. Calyx 2 to 3 lines diameter, hemispheric ; anther-cells para-llel. Fruit obconic, 3 to 4 lines diameter; capsule slightly sunk.Hooker was wrong in referring this to Siebcrs E. acervuia. R. T.Baker has provided a new name, E. paludosa, for it. It is quitesufficiently distinct from Cider Gum to be kept apart, and afterso many years usage there seems little advantage in suppressingHookers name. It is not at all related to the Rod Oums of Aus-tralia. Appli-scrnted Gum (Eucali/pltis atuartiana, F. v. Muelhr).- —Rather close to the last, only with persistent fibrous bark to theupper branches. Leaves narrower, and flowers and fruit smaller.Our form is referred by Maiden to E. macarthuri.
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34 Cuhr Gum, sometimes also Yellow Gum (Eucalyptus gunmi,J. D.Hooker).—Usually a small tree of high altitudes and exposedsituations, but where due protection is afforded attaining a con-siderable size. Bark smooth, white. Leaves alternate, stalked,rather thick, veins spreading, oblong to broadly lanceolate, equal-sided, often obtuse, 1 to 3 inches long; juvenile leaves small,nearly round, and pale. Flowers three in the umbel, shortlystalked. Operculum shortly hemispheric to nearly conical. Fruithemispheric to nearly oblong-truncate, 2 to 3 lines diameter; rimrather thin; capsule sunk. Occasionally in luxuriant clumpsyoung trees may be found with large, opposite, connate leaves untilafter the flowering age, but, at least in all recorded instances, whenattaining a height of 15 feet the mature foliage is assumed. Thisform appears verj- close to, if distinct from, E. einerea, F. v. M.Von Mueller once suggested for this form the name E. perriniana. Brown Gum (Eui-iiltjptus muelleri, T. B

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