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of Rosewood, and it is exceedingly hard, though not tough. 

 Near Nymagee I have known large trees of it called Ironwood, 

 owing to the hardness of the wood. Through having white wood 

 when young and red wood when mature, is another and probably 

 the chief reason why the tree has the two names of Whitewood 

 and Rosewood, for I found that on some holdings they are con- 

 sidered two species. On the Lachlan and about Trangie, on the 

 western railway line, are places where it seems to attain its 

 greatest size. The leaves are much in request for fodder, and if 

 the branches be lopped, young shoots will grow freely, giving the 

 tree a very pretty appearance, although generally it is by no 

 means an umbrageous species. Between Bourke and Cobar it is 

 seldom much more than a shrub, with pale glaucous leaves, and is 

 one of the plants known as Blue Bush, though on Gundabooka 

 Station I have heard it called Rose Bush as well. The species 

 extends at least as far south as the Murrumbidgee, generally 

 growing on good soil and avoiding rocky situations. Its aboriginal 

 name on the Lachlan is Beernan, and towards the Bogan it is 

 Ruba. 



The Acacias noticed between Pangee and Nymagee were : — A. 

 ho/nalophylla, A. Oswaldi, A. hakeoides, A. decora, A. doratoxylon 

 (Currawong), A. coUetioides (Pin Bush), A. Burkiitii, and A. 

 amblygona, A. Cunn., a dwarf prickly species growing near 

 Nymagee. 



The Eucalypts seen were : — E. rostrcUa, only close to Pangee, 

 E. 2^opidifolia, E. Woollsiana, E. intertexta, E. oleosa, E. dumosa, 

 E. viridis, E. sideroxyloii, E. tereticornis, var. dealbata, and one 

 tree of Ironbark Box found on a slate ridge among E. sideroxylon 

 and E. Woollsiana. The Ironbark Box is the tree which has the 

 appearance of being a hybrid between E. sideroxylon the Iron- 

 bark, and E. Woollsiana, the Box. Just north of Nymagee is a 

 hill of considerable geological interest, one side being Silurian 

 slate, and the other a porphyry and granitic rock. On the slate 

 side is Eucalyptus Morrisii, a mallee 8 or 10 feet high, but it is 

 seldom found on the other side, where instead there is E. terti- 

 cornis, var. dealbata. All through I have noticed that the former 



