508 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, II., 



Range, on both sides of the New South Wales-Queensland border 

 <W. Dunn). 



Local name " Woollybutt," aboriginal name " Mudione." 

 Height 130ft., diam. 2ft. Gin. Near Nelligen (J.S.Allan). 

 As regards " Woollybutt," this is a name that as between E. 

 botryoides and E. saliyna could only be applied to the former, 

 yet the herbarium specimens are typical saligna. 



" Woolly Butt," South-west Milton. The fruits rather like 

 those of E. saligna (R. H. Cambage). "Woolly Butt," Burrill, 

 Milton. The fruits like those of E. botryoides (R. H. Cambage). 



Going south, typical saligna may be found in the Bateman's 

 Bay district, which is the southernmost locality known to me. 

 At p. 436 of my ' Useful Native Plants of Australia' is a note of 

 a specimen (there referred to E. botryoides) which is very inter- 

 esting. It is a "White or Scribbly Gum." 



Going north, E. botryoides is common from Sydney to New- 

 castle. What the northern range is can only be ascertained by 

 searching along the coast. 



Victoria. — Mueller in his ' Key to the System of Victorian 

 Plants,' excludes E. saligna as a Victorian plant. He, however, 

 includes E. botryoides, "finally tall, bark persistent, dark, rough," 

 and records it from the east (which includes Gippsland, but not 

 alpine localities). 



Dr. A. W. Howitt wrote some years ago to me : — " 'Gippsland 

 Mahogany,' Eucalyptus botryoides. Locally it seems to be well 

 thought of. It is confined to certain localities near the coast of 

 East Gippsland, not extending in the mainland west of the 

 mouth of the Mitchell River, but in the sandy tracts between 

 the lakes and the sea at least as far as Seacombe. In this part, 

 however, as also generally in the sandy coast-land, the timber is 

 small. Timber of size for milling purposes grows, I think, only 

 about the Snowy River." 



The Victorian specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, 

 all belong to E. botryoides. 



