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others), and inland to the Macquarie (A. Cunningham, Fraser) ; northward 

 to Hastings Kiver (Beckler) ; and southward to Twofold Bay (F. Mueller). - 



Following are some New South Wales localities represented in the 

 National Herbarium, Sydney, for the normal form: 



v Shrubs of 3 and 4 feet. Foot of Big Jack Mountain, Bombala district; 

 " Black Wattle," Weddin, Grenfell, and county of Ashburnham generally. 



Rylstone district; Cow Flat, 11 miles south of Bathurst; Parkes Water 

 .Supply; Bushrangers' Hocks, Eugowra; Wellington; Minore, Dubbo; Har- 

 vey Range. 



Tamworth; Tingha; Moona Plains, Walcha; Howell, Warialda, and Em- 

 'maville. Phyllodes very attenuate at the base in these two localities. 



It is a small tree about Brisbane. 



Now we come to the variety falciformis, the tree which is of such import- 

 ance for its tanning bark. 



As regards the occurrence of the Mountain Hickory in Victoria, Baron 

 von Mueller speaks of it as scattered through the eastern half of the State, 

 over ridges and ranges, gregarious on some of the sub-alpine declivities and 

 plateaux. 



New South Wales seems to be the natural home of the tree. In our State 

 it extends from south to north, in the eastern half, on the southern ranges, 

 the Dividing Range and its spurs, and the New England district. 



While this species is so abundant and so extensively distributed, it would 

 appear that only bark from the colder parts of New South Wales is of any 

 great commercial value, and I therefore give particulars of such localities 

 in a little more detail. 



It is found from the Clyde and Bateman's Bay district, all along the 

 coast land, right down south to the boundary of Victoria. 



Nolligen, Moruya, Araluen, Tilba, Cobargo, Colombo, Bega, Candelo, 

 Bombala, Delegate, and the Twofold Bay district are good localities. 



It is less common in New England, but employed in the Mudgee, Tam- 

 worth, and other districts for tanning. 



The following notes from a southern correspondent, who forwarded me 

 some barks, include some additional localities: 



" No. 1. Local name Hickory or Black Wattle, taken from a tree 40 feet 

 in height, 16 inches in diameter, growing plentifully on ridges and high 

 lands in the parishes of Wagonga, Noorooma, Tilba, Bodalla, and neigh- 

 bourhood, county of Dampier, for miles round the base of Mount Drome- 

 dary; soil generally light on slate formation. 



"No. 2. Local name Broad-leaved Hickory, though not so plentiful as 

 No. 1, yet in abundance, more particularly about Milton, Bermagui, Tilba 

 Tilba, Reedy Creek, Cobargo, and along Tuross River. It is not uncommon 

 to see trees 2 feet in diameter; that from which No. 2 specimen was taken 

 measured 20 feet in height and 12 inches in diameter." 



If possible, no tree under a foot in diameter should be stripped ; immature 

 trees give little bark, which contains comparatively little tannic acid. To 

 strip Mountain Hickory saplings is simply killing- the goose with the golden 

 ggs. It is not surprising that so large a tree yields rather a thick bark. 

 A certain specimen is over five-eighths of an inch thick, is rugged, something 

 like an ironbark, only more stringy. 



Some of the localities represented in the National Herbarium, Sydney, 

 are as follows. 



