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diminutive in size, an(], it seems likely, are slowly vanisliing 

 species. Around Cosvra Creek the plants occur in small clumps 

 of an acre or so, and are considered rare even in that localit}^ 

 The same applies both to Cox's River and Bathurst. 



E. pidvigera is discussed by Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., in 

 these Proceedings for 1904 (p. 769). 



In the Report of the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science for 1901(VoLix., p.345), Mr. R. T. Baker, F.L.S., 

 refers to E. cordata and E. pidvigera as distinct species, but 

 regards the latter as identical with E. jndverulenta Sinis(Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2087) which was described in 1819, or three years before 

 Cunningham's discovery of the plant. Up to 1901, Australian 

 botanists had recognised a tree known as the Argyle Apple, 

 which grows in the Goulburn district (County of Argyle), as E. 

 pulveruleida, and which is undoubtedly distinct from E.jndvigera. 

 Baron von Mueller described what he afterwards rightly ref>-arded 

 as only a form of the Argyle Apple, naming it E. cinerea. This name 

 Mr. Baker resuscitated for the species, Vv'hen deciding to adopt the 

 name of E pidvernlenta for the Cox's River plant. My greatest 

 difficulty in accepting the Cox's River tree as E. jmjveridenta was 

 that only six years had elapsed from the time the explorers first 

 leached that locality in 1813, till the species was flowering, and 

 the description published from a cultivated plant in England 

 in 1819. Knowing also that no similar geological formation 

 to that at Cox's River occurred rear the road between that 

 point and Sydney, it seemed doubtful if the plant ever grew at a 

 place that was earlier accessible. The possibility of the described 

 species having been raised from seeds collected at Cox's River has, 

 however, since been demonstrated; for seeds brouglit thence in 

 October, 1904, have produced plants which flowered in three 

 years and five months (Plate xxx.). It must be remembered, 

 however, that in the early days, after seeds were collected here, 

 quite six months would probably elapse, before they could be 

 planted in England. The terminal point reached by Blax- 

 land and party in 1813, was a few hundred yards south of Mount 

 Blaxland. Between 1813 and 1815, a road was constructed to 



