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NOTES ON THE NATIVE FLORA OF NEW SOUTH 

 WALES. 



By R. H. Cambage. 



Part ii. Western Slopes of New England. 



(Plates xxii., xxiv., and xxv.) 



When passing through Narrabri and Moree to Inverell and 

 Tingha in October, 1903, notes were kept of the conspicuous 

 members of the flora distributed over these districts. These 

 notes have since been amplified from the examination of speci- 

 mens collected in the last-named localities, and are now made 

 available as a contribution to the botanical survey of this State. 

 The notes referring to the country extending from Boggabri to 

 Warialda were taken from the train, consequently only the larger 

 and well known trees are mentioned, and it must not be inferred 

 that any particular species is absent from the district though 

 unnoticed by me. This portion of the area traversed consists 

 for the most part of black soil plains, luxuriant with the flowers 

 of herbs and grasses in a good season, but one long stretch of 

 bare ground, often dust, during a drought. Without having had 

 some experience of areas such as our western and north-western 

 plains, no one can conceive what great quantities of charming 

 blooms are produced under favourable circumstances, or what 

 desolation exists when the conditions are reversed. 



From Boggabri to Narrabri is a distance north-westerly of 33 

 miles, the elevation above sea-level being 823 feet at the former 

 and about 700 feet^at the latter place. The following Eucalypts 

 were noticed near the railway line : — E. j)02yulifolia, Hook. 

 (Bimble or Shiny-leaved Box), E. melanophloia, F.v.M. (Silver- 

 leaved Ironbark), E. Woollsiana, R. T. Baker (Narrow-leaved 

 Box), E. tereticornis, Sm., y ?ii\ dealbata, Deane & Maiden (Gum), E. 

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