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to me should be valuable for many purposes. About twenty 

 years ago, at Omeo, I made a set of swingle-bars for a four-horse 

 team from this timber, wliich stood work remarkably well, and one 

 of which is still in use after much hard usage. I have also seen 

 palings split from this tree over six feet in length, which were so 

 clean that after being planed up they were used successfully as 

 weatherboards. Locally the tree is called Woolly Butt, from the 

 character of the bark, and also Mountain Ash." 



Mr. Hovvitt states subsequently in a report : — " I have observed 

 a slightly varying form of E. Sieberiana (6) growing on the summit 

 of Mt. Macedon, where formerly it was used for milling purposes." 



A tree known as Silvertop, Darlimurla, South Gippsland (H. 

 Deane),*bark rough, resembling that of Stringybark; limbs smooth 

 and white, hence the local name ; a milling timber, posts and 

 rails ; appears to be F. dives also. 



''£. dives, Schauer. was seen in moderate abundance near the 

 first spring. The species has not previously been recorded for 

 Victoria. There are dense forests of straight young trees, princi- 

 pally of Mountain Ash, U. Sieberiana, F. v, M., for the greater 

 part of the ascent" (p. 46). Also ante (bottom of p. 45) — " the 

 air .... is redolent of Eucalyptus, in this instance chiefly 

 the pleasing-scented iJ. Sieberiana " ( Victorian JSaturalist, xvii., 

 July, 1900). 



The specimen of E. dives above referred to was in early fruit 

 only and hardly glaucous. The specimens referred to as E. 

 Sieberiana (and which I now attribute to E. dives also) were 

 obtained from higher up the mountain, and are very glaucous. 



These specimens from the upper part of Mt. St. Bernard have 

 large sucker leaves, one in my possession and thoroughly dry 

 measuring 10^ inches long by 5^ inches broad. This and the 

 next three specimens are identical with E. delegatensis, R. T. B., 

 and are the glaucous form common in the cold districts, which 

 imperceptibly passes into the normal form. The type was 

 collected on Delegate Mountain, New South Wales, and tlie same 

 collector (W. Baeuerlen) collected it on the Snowy Mountains 

 on dry ridges in 1890. These specimens, while from the New 

 South Wales side of the Alps, are identical with specimens found 

 on the Victorian side, and also with specimens of E. dives found 

 near Goulburn, New South Wales. 



(i.) Gum-topped Stringybark of Lake Sorell (Tasmania), T. 

 Stephens. 



Lower part of stem exactly like common Stringybark, but if 



♦ This tree I have always claimed to be E. Sieberiana (a), known locally as 

 Gumtop, Silvertop, and White Ironbark, unless it is the tree called 

 " Yertchuk." Perhaps I am confusing your description with E. Sieberiana, 

 which grows between Darlimurla and Boolarra. — A. W. H. 



