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innamon Gum</i>-- 1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 19, p. 7, col. 1: "A forest only fit for urban gnomes these twisted trunks. Here are no straight and lofty trees, but sprawling cinnamon gums, their skin an unpleasing livid red, pock-marked; saplings in white and chilly grey, bleeding gum in ruddy stains, and fire-black boles and stumps to throw the greenery into bright relief." <i>Drooping Gum</i>-- 1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. II. c. xii. p. 387: "The trees, which grew only in the valleys, were small kinds of banksia, wattles and drooping gums." <i>Flooded Gum</i>-- 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 7: "Large flooded gum-trees (but no casuarinas) at the low banks of the lagoons." <i>Lemon-scented Gum</i>-- 1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 265: "Among the <i>Eucalypti</i> or gum-trees growing in New South Wales, a species named the lemon-scented gum-tree, <i>Eucalyptus citriodora</i>, is peculiar to the Wide Bay district, in the northern part of the colony." <i>Mountain Gum</i>-- 1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. I. c. iii, p. 118: "The cypresses became mixed with casuarina, box and mountain-gum." <i>Red Gum</i> [see also <i>Red-gum</i>]-- 1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. xi. p. 461: "The red gum-tree. This is a very large and lofty tree, much exceeding the English oak in size." 1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 33: "Red gum, a wood which has of late years been exported to England in great quantities; it has all the properties of mahogany." 1868. W. Carleton, `Australian Nights,' p. 14: "While she, the younger, went to fill Her red-gum pitcher at the rill." 1870. J. O. Tucker, `The Mute,' etc., p. 85: "Then the dark savage `neath the red gum's shade Told o'er his deeds." 1890. `The Argus,' June 14, p. 4, col. I "Those of the leaden hue are red gums." <i>Rough Gum</i>-- 1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. I. c. iii. p. 118: "The rough-gum abounded near the creek." <i>Rusty Gum</i>-- 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 48: "The range was openly timbered with white gum, spotted gum, Iron-bark, rusty gum and the cypress pine." <i>Salmon Gum</i>-- 1893. `The Australasian,' Aug. 3, p. 252, col. 4: "The chief descriptions are salmon, morrel and white gums, and gimlet-wood. The bark of the salmon gum
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