A Residence in Tasmania: With a Descriptive Tour Through the Island, From ...
A Residence in Tasmania: With a Descriptive Tour Through the Island, From ...
Henry Butler Stoney
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The main trunk is usually short where clear of limbs, as it sends out long horizontal branches on all sides, almost from the ground, gradually shortening up to its fincrpointed top. A smaller species, Cal- litris Gunniij which forms a particularly handsome shrub, and grows in picturesque groves along the banks of St. Paul's river, upon a portion of the South Esk, and on the Meredith Eiver at Swan- port. "The most extensively dififiised trees, next to the JEucalypti are the Acactce^ which are me...t with in all parts of the island, flourishing most luxuri- antly in the open pasture lands. Of these the first that will engage our attention is the Acacia dealbata, or Silver Wattle. This tree attains the height of sixty to one hundred and twenty feet, ramifies alter- nately a few feet from the groimd, and measures in T^ircumference, when full grown, from four to Digitized by Google 264 A BESIDBNCE IN TASMANIA. nine feet, at four feet from the ground. Its leaves are doubly pinnatified ; inflorescence a spike, flowers yellow, polygamous.
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