92 THE EUCALYPTS OF GIPPSLAND. 



lowest elevation at which I have found it growing is at Glen Maggie, 200ft. alcove sea 

 level, upon Upper Silurian sediment. In the valley of the Macalister it grows 

 extensively, ascending the mountains near Mount Wellington to 3000ft. On the 

 Insolvent Track it appears at 1000ft., and thence extends through the mountains to 

 the sources of the Wentworth River, reaching an elevation of 3000ft. Similarly on 

 the Tambo Elver it commences at 800ft., near Noyang, and extends to 3000ft. at 

 Omeo. Further to the East at Turnback 1000ft., Jingalala 2500ft., and Bonang 

 3000ft ; it is also found extensively on the Buchan, Snowy, and Deddick Pavers, 

 extending towards the high mountains in New South Wales. It grows especially 

 upon dry ranges, on Plutonic, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary formations of Silurian 

 and Devonian age. I have not observed it anywhere in the Tertiary tracts. 



E. obliqua. — ThisEucalypt is principally found in the western and south-western 

 portions of Gippsland, where it, in many places, forms the whole of the forests, or is 

 in others mixed with E. goniocalyx, E. viminalis, E. gunnii, and E. globulus. It 

 appears to be essentially a littoral form, but ascends the mountains to considerable 

 elevations in the cool, shady, moist guUies on the southern slopes. For instance, in 

 the great Dividing Eange, where the Nicholson River rises, E. obliqua follows up the 

 damp gullies on the south side, and forms part of the forest on the summit, together 

 with E. sieberiana (6),E. viminahs (rt),aud E. amygdalina(/)). It occurs also in Eastern 

 Gippsland, as, for instance, at Buchan, Gelantipy, Bonang, and Bendoc. It varies but 

 little in character, although the form of the fruit is in some cases, as, for instance, 

 near Port Albert, in the sandy coast country, not quite so truncate-ovate as in the 

 typical forms, yet in all cases the peculiar unequal-sided ovate lanceolar or even- 

 cordate lanceolar and pointed form of the leaves always marks the saplings and large 

 seedlings from those of any other species. 



Having now referred to the various types of the stringy-bark groups, it is con- 

 venient to mention the distinctions between their seedlings and saplings. 



The seedlings of E. piperita, E. eugenioides, and E. capitellata are beset on 

 stems and leaf-stalks with numerous tufts of hairs, which also line the edges of the 

 leaves. 



The leaves themselves are more or less hairy, except in that form of E. capitellata 

 growing in the mountains, as at Osier's Creek, where they are smooth. Those of E. 

 piperita and E. eugenioides are, at this stage, universally hairy. The seedling 

 leaves of both E. piperita, E. eugenioides, and E. capitellata are at first ovate and 

 opposed, but in the former I have often observed them to be ovate-pointed, or even 

 lanceolar and smaller than those of E. capitellata, which are always ovate. In 

 neither species are the leaves shiny. 



In E. macrorhyncha the seedlings are also more or less beset with tufts of hairs, 



