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high mountains of the Great Dividing Range, on the sources of the Goulburn, Ovens, Mitta Mitta, and 

 even in the higher Alps, as at Mount Livingstone, where it is known as " Ribbony Gum." (The late 

 A. W. Hewitt, in an unpublished report). 



It is somewhat widely distributed in Gippsland. Tt is found at various places along the littoral 

 forests on the Great Soutliern Railway from Korumburra to Forster and Toora. It occurs also at Neerim, 

 around Cuntiinghame, in the Lakes District, and in various other places on the Baw Baw, or Great 

 Dividing Range. It is also found at the head of the Mitta and Ovens, and may also extend to the head 

 waters of the Goulburn. The chief State Forests which contain this timber are, Blackwood Reservation, 

 near Forster, Cape Otway. Other State Fores' s containing Blue Gum include Apollo Bay ; here, however, 

 the difficul ies of an exposed port has been an insuperable bariier to the getting out of this timber by 

 water carriage. As regards the Mount Cole State Forest, Beaufort, the Blue Gum forest at Mount Cole 

 contains fine timber. 



At Stanley State Forest, near Beechworth, a small "bed" of LIjc Gum is found. (The late G. S 

 Perrin, in an unpublished report.) 



IMucllor biiffly gives i(s Victorian range as " From the vicinily of Cape 

 Otway to Wilson's Promontory, northward to the llumc (Murray) Piivcr " 

 (" Eucalyptographia"). 



In the National Herbarium, Sydney, we have the normal form from the 

 following Victorian localities : — 



Upper Pern-tree Gully (E. Cheel) ; Darlimurla, South Gippsland (H. Deane); 

 Metung (A. W. lEowitt) ; Beechworth and Sandy Creek (lib. Melb.) ; Long Gullj^, 

 Cassilis Township, scattered along the gullies in the locality (H. Hopkins). Some 

 of the fruits from this locality a little smaller than the type, and thus like some 

 New South Wales specimens. 



New South Wales. 



Mueller in "Eucalyptographia" gives the Hume (Murray) and Tumut 

 Kivcrs for the occuirence of this species in New South AVales. He also quotes the 

 Rev. Robert Collie for the locality Braidwood to Araluen, but this is founded on a 

 mistake, the species afterwards named E. 3Iaideni being Mr. Collie's tree. I will 

 refer to this when I come to the latter species, page 259. 



In the south it has been recorded from the Counties of Selwyn, Wynyard, 

 Buccleuch and Cowley. 



Purther north we have it from Burrinjuck, Yass district (County of Harden), 

 and still further north (west from Sydney) it occurs at the Jenolan Caves (County 

 of Westmoreland), also Nulla Mountain, 25 miles east of Rylstone, Mudgee district, 

 and at about 13 miles from Mudgee (Parish of Derate, County of Phillip). 



In New England, we have it from the Nundle and Walcha districts. 

 Staff-Surveyor A. Chesterman, then of Tumut, made the following memo, a 

 few years ago, as to the localities in which Eurabbie {E. glohulus) is found. 



(1.) Found only in mountainous districts where there is a certain rainfall. It grows in rich soil 

 along the lower edge of the snowbelt, for although the beat trees grow in places where snow occasionally 

 falls and even lies on the ground for some weeks, the timber disappears as the higher levels are reached. 



(2.) Through the County of Selwyn, along the slopes of the huge spurs falling westerly from the 

 Main Dividing Range, this timber is to be found, and hence it can be traced in belts and patches northerly 

 through the County of Buccleuch and into the County of Cowley, on to the Goodradigbee River. 



