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The typical E. viminalis, as we know it in New South Wales, 

 is a '• Ribbony Gum." The ribbons are best seen on wet, windy 

 days; they then flatten out and are seen to be of great length, 

 like streamers or pennants. In Tasmania (the species was de- 

 scribed from Tasmanian specimens), Victoria and Southern New 

 South Wales, the bark is, however, often very rough. We have 

 both in Southern and Western New South Wales and Southern 

 Victoria seen the whole trunk encased in hard, black bark, giving 

 the tree, at first sight, almost the appearance of an Ironbark. 

 Mr. Baker's E. Smithii is a rough-barked tree of this kind. It 

 must be distinctly understood that multiflowered viminalis has 

 not always a rough bark, e.y.^ the " White Gum " of Beilsdown 

 Creek and other parts of New England ancl South Queensland. 



The lower part of the stem of viminalis has hard, black bark. 

 In var. pedicellaris the bark is higher up the stem than usual. 

 E. saligna is another species in which the height of the rough 

 bark varies. 



Timber. — "Said to be durable" (A. W. Howitt, of a rough- 

 barked Wando Vale specimen;. We have for some years heard 

 a favourable report of a timber in Southern New South Wales 

 from the same locality as Mr. Baker's E. Smithii, and identical 

 with it. We invite attention to the observations, by one of us, 

 as to the durability of E. viminalis timber in the Dorrigo Forest 

 Reserve (Agric. Gaz. N.S.W. v. 612, 1894). The timber of E. 

 viminalis is usually so inferior that it will surprise many people 

 to hear it spoken of in terms of praise; at the same time the best 

 of it is far from being a first-class timber. We require further 

 evidence in regard to its quality. 



Varieties. 



Var. 1. E. VIMINALIS, Labill., var. pedicellaris, F.v.M. {ined.). 



Mr. R. T. Baker has described a species (these Proceedings, 

 1898, p. 292), under the name of E. Smithii which, in our opinion, 

 is simply a varietv of E. viminalis with 6-8 flowers and longish 

 pedicels. It is the E. viminalis ysbV. pedicellaris, F.v.M., of Herb. 

 Melb. It has rough bark at butt, and notes in regard to it will 



