BY R. H. CAMBAGE. 715 



tree which is best known in the western district as White Box 

 is E. albens, with pale bark and glaucous leaves, but its habitat 

 is under the western fringe of the high mountain spurs running 

 from the Great Dividing Range, avoiding the cold country, and 

 extending westward along slight undulations to the low plain 

 country proper. Here it ceases, but is met and overlapped by E. 

 Woollsiana. All along, and near these points of contact, the 

 latter is called Black Box, to distinguish it from E. albens. 

 It is also a darker tree, having dark green and slightly glossy 

 leaves. In times of drought sheep will eat the leaves of E. albens, 

 especially after they have been cut a day or two, but they object 

 to the leaves of E. Woollsiana. This species grows on all forma- 

 tions, whether igneous or sedimentary, but is seldom or perhaps 

 never found on the tops of high hills. It is, however, very partial 

 to low ridges, and also grows plentifully on low land. Though 

 it is to be found on the banks of the Lachlan, it is not, on a 

 typical black soil river flat, so much in its regular habitat there 

 as E. microtheca or E. largiflorens. 



After passing Acacia homolophylla — some with broad and some 

 with narrow leaves — A. doratoxylon, Eucalyptus tereticornisvax. 

 dealbata, Pittosporum phillyrceoides, Fusanus acuminatus, and 

 Acacia decora, a low slate ridge is reached where there is much 

 Mallee — E. oleosa, E. dumosa, and E. viridis. 



Next to be noticed is another Eucalypt now seen on this road 

 for the first time, E. sideroxylon, A. Cunn., (Ironbark). This is 

 the common Ironbark of the interior, and chiefly belongs there, 

 although it occurs near the coast as at Liverpool, St. Mary's, &c. It 

 is rarely found growing at an altitude exceeding 2000 feet above sea 

 level. By some it is called Black and by others Red Ironbark owing 

 to the colour of the bark and wood respectively. The aboriginal 

 name is Mugga. In going west it is first met with on the western 

 line beyond Kerr's Creek, and on the Orange to Forbes line 

 beyond Molong, so that it covers much the same country as E. 

 dealbata, and also prefers ridges. In the west this species bears 

 a profusion of blossoms in the months of April and May. The 

 flowers are generally creamy-white, but on some trees they are 



