In Tasmania, all the Beeches are called Myrtles,and there are extensive forests of the Beech Faguscunninghamii, Hook. 84: Shading a brook the tea-trees grew, Spangled with blossoms of whitish hue, Which fell from the boughs to the ground below, As fall from heaven the flakes of snow. 447: Words quite as unintelligible to the natives as thecorresponding words in the vernacular language of the white menwou [See Bunce quotation, 1859.
By the settlers all the formsare termed `ribbon-wood,' or less frequently `lace-bark'--names which are applied to other plants: they are also termed`thousand-jacket.
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