Remarks on Timber from east Gippsland, by Lockhart Morton, Esq.

Eucalyptus Longifolia: Link—Woollybutt.—This seems an excellent timber. It is like ironbark, much used for wheel spokes. It bears a high character for durability when used for fencing purposes. As posts, it is said to stand undecayed in the ground for twenty years. The bark is fibrous. This wood is esteemed an excellent fuel.

Brachychiton Populneum: R. Brown—Currijong.—This is a soft timber. When dry, it is soft and spongy. The wood is fibrous, and the young wood immediately below the bark is sweet, juicy, and, I believe, nutritious. The bark is thick, and abounds with strong, coarse fibre.

Eucalyptus Corymbosa: Smith—Bloodwood.—The value of this timber is not known, except as an excellent fuel. It is not an easily split timber, and the number of resin-veins throughout it is much against its being used. It is said to be very durable when used in fencing. The bark is almost void of fibre.

Angophora Intermedia: Candolle—Spurious Apple-tree.—This wood page 9 is but little used, except as fuel; for this purpose it is considered very good. It is said to be used for naves by wheelwrights. The bark contains but little fibre.

Banksia Serrata: L.—This timber is soft, and short in the grain; it is high-coloured, and singularly marked. The bark is very thick, and seems to contain much tannin, as well as a reddish-purple dye. I have seen moleskin trousers which had been tanned and dyed with this and wattle-bark; the colour was a rich dark purple.

Acacia Supporosa: F. Mueller—Native Hickory.—This I consider a valuable wood for many purposes. It is exceedingly tough and elastic; would make good gig-shafts, handles for tools, gun-stocks, &c., and seems to contain some inflammable material. Tall straight spars, fit for masts, can be obtained from 50 to 100 feet long and 18 inches in diameter.

Panax Palmaceus: Ferd. Mueller—This timber is soft and very light, floating even when unseasoned half out of water. The wood is white, and has a large pith. The trees are generally from fifteen to eighteen inches in diameter at the butt, and rise with a clear straight stem to the height of fifty or sixty feet; then throw out branches at right angles, adorned at their extremities with a dense mass of foliage.

Exocarpus Cupressiformis: Labill.—Native Cherrytree.—This is a soft fine-grained timber, and is the best wood I know for carving.