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Northern Localities. — " Peppermint/' 2 feet diameter. SO to 100 feet. Head 

 of Warrah Creek (Jesse Greg<om: Moonan Flat? (J. L. Boorinan, J.H.M.); 

 " Peppermint/' 4 feet diameter. 40 feet high. Parish Vernon, County Parry 

 If. H. Simom : Tingha (J. L. Boorinan) ; Howell (J. L. Boorman. J.H.M.i : 3 

 miles from Inverell on Howell-Tingha Road as soon as granite is reached. Takes 

 the place of White Box E. hemiphloia var. albens) on granite. Emmaville (J. L. 

 Boormr 



"The - White Peppermint' grows on many of the slaty ridges around 

 Walcha (Silurian). It is not abundant, and is of no commercial value, although 



a - - 1 for fencing in the ahsence of better material. The timher, which 

 i- pale red in colour when fresh, is soft and liable to decay ; it is also liable to the 

 ravages of the white ant. The tree grows to an average height of 40 feet, with an 

 average girth of about 8 feet. It is often gnarled and stunted, and generally has the 

 appearance of being elbowed out of existence by E. engenioides with which it 

 shares the rid_re-. The bark is semi-persistent and faintly regular throughout, 

 shedding its waste material in a kind of whitish flaky dust.'" (J. F. Campbell, 

 Walch 



'•'White Peppermint." Arniidale district (A. E. Stopford) ; 30-40 feet. 

 J; ix bark up to small branches. Wollomurnbi River A. W. Howitt) ; Tenterrield 

 to Sandy Flat (J.H.M.); Drake-Tentertield (A. G. Hagman) ; Timbarra iC. Stuart) ; 

 -White Bos," Cottesbrooke, near Tenterfield (J.H.M.). 



< V >L'EENSLANI). 



'• Peppermint." Stanthorpe | Rev. J. H. Simmonds, .J. L. Boorman). 



AFFINITIES. 



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1. With E. cinerea l'.v.M. var. multiflora (see Part XXI, p. I. of the present 

 work). 



The more closely these two species are studied, the more evident it becomes 

 that they have many points in common. Mr. It. T. Baker. Proc. Linn. 8oc. N.S. if . 

 x\v, B67, - if opinion that E. Sluartiana [Bridgesiana), whose hark yields an 

 oil, differs in this - ct from E. cinerea (formerly Sluartiana, partim) It 

 - mid, h<)W'-ver, be pointed out that .Mr. C. Falck calls the latter tree " Turpentine 

 tree," by reasoo of the fact thai there is oil in the bark of that species also. 

 Eucalyptographia, under E. pulwrulenta 



Plate 101 {Sluartiana) should lie compared with Plate 69 cinerea var. 



The juvenile leaves of the two forms are not very dissimilar, bul the 



)f the latter an- often broader and shorter, while those of E. Sluartiana often 



