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Habitat. — ^Ve have collected this form from Woodford to Cox's Eivor (Boweiifels) and the 

 Jenolan Caves, and also at Mount Wilson. Further localities to connect with the coast will bo looked 

 for. The most westerly locality from which it has been obtained is Mudgee, where it is called "Silvertop" 

 (which points to a bluish cast) according to Mr. R. T. Baker, who collected it ; also Corricudgy Mount, 

 K. T. Baker, October, 1897. 



We have the same form on the Clyde Mountain (southern mountain ranges), No. 31, W. Baeuerlen, 

 July, 1890. 



In the Outer Domain, Sydney, we have an interesting tree, which is ati naturel, and which attracts 

 attention from the fact that it is more "bark-bound" than tl:e majority of £. capitcllata trees around Port 

 Jackson, that is to say, the bark, though fibrous in texture, is thinner, denser, and more closely appressed 

 to the trunk. 



The juvenile leaves and the intermediate leaves depart from the type, being narrower, moi-o 

 lanceolate, and more closely resemble those of the Blue Mountains form just referred to. 



Incidentally, it may be remarked that the orbicular suckers of E. capitcllata from type localities 

 (Port Jackson) would appear to be a product of an exposed situation. All the forms of E. capUellata 

 appear to have more or less lanceolate juvenile leaves in their earliest stage. 



Seedlings raised from typical capitdlala trees early take on a lanceolar shape with entire margins. 

 This is succeeded by an undulate margin, with stellate hairs on the leaves and on the irregularly-toothed 

 margin and twigs. These displa}' a complete similarity to those of the Blue Mountains, and it seems 

 impossible to assume that they do not belong to the same species. It would appear impossible to seize on 

 characters even to make a well-defined varietj'. 



Both of us have independently grown seedlings from Port Jackson and Port Hacking seed, and we 

 cannot see any difference between the seedlings and those of the Blue Mountains trees. 



YlCTOEIA. 



There are two coastal forms of U. capiU'llafa, as miglit be expected froai tlie 

 extensive geographical range of the species — the New South Wales, and the 

 Victorian-South Australian. 



Ilowitt states in his " Eucalypts of Gippsland" that he has not seen it 

 groAving there at a less elevation than 500 feet, and that it cannot, therefore, strictly 

 speaking, be called one of the littoral species. In New South AVales, and also near 

 the Victorian-South Australian border, it, however, often grows quite close to the sea. 



Mr. Ilowitt -writes privately — " E. capitellala grows to a large size in the 

 mountain districts, for instance, Moondarra, Wandin Yallock, and elsewhere in the 

 Yarra watershed. In the western district the tree has usually a dwarfed habit." 



Sec also my observations on the Victorian specimens referred to E. capUellata, 

 var. (?) latifoUa and E. Baxterl, siqira, p. 213. 



Form icilh rugose hucls. — I now place together some fiuther plants of this 

 species -with more or less rugose buds. I liave already drawn attention to the 

 subject,* and think that this tuberculate appearance Avill be found to ])o somewhat 

 common now that attention has been invited to it. The specimens from Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia (M. Koch) may be compared. 



I do not name this rugose-budded form as a varit^ty, but, in view of the 

 difficulty of "breaking down'' such a uidcly-dilTused and variable species as 

 E. cajri/ellala, it seems uell to point out any ])rominent characters, to aid in 

 classification. 



' froc- Lm- Soc. N.!>. ir., 1904, p. 766. 



