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RANGE. 



This species is found in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland 

 (chiefly on the tablelands and especially New England). A large number of localities 

 are quoted at pages 195 and 196 of Part VII of the present work, and the following 

 further records of specific localities in the National Herbarium, Sydney, wiU be more 

 or less useful. 



Mr. Forest Guard N. Stewart of Glen Innes, writing in January, 1909, made the 

 following report in regard to his experience in New England, N.S.W. Further particulars 

 in regard to the timber will be found at page 6, Part XXI, of my " Forest Flora of New 

 South Wales." 



This Blackbutt varies very much in quality according to soil and altitude, as I find that this timber 

 growing on granite formation and at a high altitude is pale in colour and harder than the same timber at a 

 lower altitude on soil of a basaltic formation. Where growing on the latter, the timber is generally of a 

 pale brown colour, denser and heavier than the former, and the bark is of a more fibrous nature. 



It appears to be very subject to gum-veins, although not to such an extent as to injure the timber. 

 For house-building purposes it has been found to be very durable. 



It has a wide range in this district from the Sara or Mitchell River on the south to Pheasant Creek 

 on the north. I cannot find any of the same timber as far west as Emmaville. The Messmate of Emma- 

 ville and the Blackbutt of New England differ very much in quality, as the Emmaville timber is only used 

 for temporary purposes as it is not durable, especially when it comes in contact with the ground, and it 

 has too many gum-veins for house-building purposes. Blackbutt is never specified here for piles or in 

 fencing contracts for obvious reasons, the principal one I think is that the Glen Innes people think there is 

 no timber like stringybark or box for fencing purposes. I have examined piles of the New England 

 Blackbutt in one building which I know has been erected twenty-four years, and they appear to be quite 

 sound. 



" Messmate," Coolpi Mountains, near EUenborough Falls, via Wingham (J. L. 

 Boor man). 



Mt. Lindsay Station, Nandewar Mt., 3,200 feet (R. H. Cambage, No. 2347). 



" A Mountain Box " (an improper name, J.H.M.). Southern flanks of GlenifEer 

 Range, GlenifTer. (E. H. F. Swain, Nos. 220, 223). " Blackbutt," parish Vant, county 

 Hawes. (E. H. F. Swain). " Stringybark," Dividing Range, county Parry. (E. H. 

 F. Swain). Parish Scott, county Parry (E. H. F. Swain). Usually hollow, timber 

 regarded as useless ; Dungowan Creek, county Parry. Swamp Oak, parish Vernon, 

 county Parry (Forest Guard M. H. Simon). " Stringybark," Nundle, county Parry 

 (Forest Guard M. H. Simon, No. 9). 



Fourteen feet in girth, parish Terregree, county Courallie, Moree district (E. H. 

 F. Swain, Nos. 25, 38). 



Timber valued for many purposes, Guy Fawkes (J. L. Boorman). '" WooUybutt," 

 Armidale district (District Forester Stopford). 



" Blackbutt," State Forest No. 308, parish Robertson, county Gough, Glen 

 Innes Forestry district (Forest Guard, specimen No. 20). See fig. 1, Plate 190. 

 Pheasant Creek, Glen Elgin (J. L. Boorman), 

 



