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anything rather less furrowed, the bark being quite loosely 

 fibrous and easily rubbed into what bushmen call " bulls'-wool." 



(2.) Messmate (fibrous bark), Mt. Mueller, near Mt. Baw 

 Baw, Vic, James Melvin, March, 1889. 



(3.) Gum-top Stringybark, East Mount Field, 1,000-1,500 feet. 



These three specimens are in the National Herbarium, Mel- 

 bourne, and are identical with the Mt. St. Bernard specimens. 

 Baron von Mueller labelled Nos. i and 2 E. hcemastoma (later on 

 U. obliqua) and No. 3 E. Sieberiana — an excellent commentary on 

 the difficulty of dealmg with this alpine form, which difficulty I 

 would submit is removed by looking upon it as a form of E. 

 dives. 



I now state that in my opinion certain Victorian Eucalypts 

 referred to as broad-leaved forms of E. amygdalina are really E. 

 dives. The matter has already been alluded to, the affinity of 

 the two species being obvious. The leaves are more shiny and 

 more coriaceous in most of the Gippsland specimens than is the 

 case in E. amygdalina. 



The following extract is from Mr. Howitt's " Eucalypts of 

 Gippsland" (pp. cit., p. 84) : — 



" (6.) The broad-leaved variety of E. amygdalina. 



" In the mountains, and more especially in some of the Plutonic 

 and Metamorphic areas, as at Dargo and the Wentworth and 

 Omeo, there occurs a form of amygdalina which is to some 

 extent distinct from the typical form referred to. I have not 

 observed it at a lower elevation than 700 feet at Dargo, and it 

 grows upon Mt. Livingstone at about 3,000 feet, which is probably 

 near its upper limit. According to my observation it does not 

 exceed 100 feet in height, and is more frequently under 50 feet. 

 The bark is wrinkled, approaching to fibrous, and persists up to 

 the smaller branches. 



" The seedlings and young saplings have opposed sessile 

 lanceolar leaves, v/hich are, however, much broader than the 

 ordinary form, approaching at times pointed ovate. 



" The leaves when scattered are broadly fohate and unequal 

 sided. The umbels, buds, and flowers are those of the typical 

 form, but the fruit is much larger, and almost always ovate 

 top shaped, with a flat or slightly convex margin, and a brown 

 or brownish-red lint. The valves, as in the ordinary form, are 

 small. 



" It grows preferably upon the sunny slopes, from 700 to 4,000 

 feet." This form is figured at plate 8. 



Following are some specimens in Mr. Howitt's Herbarium 

 (nearly all from Gippsland, and many of them referred to in his 

 work on the Gippsland Eucalypts), which I think are referable 

 to E. dives. Some of the specimens are imperfect, and further 

 investigation may show that they belong to allied species, but 



