308 

 Dr. A. W. Howitt, in an official (unpublished) report, says : — ■ 



" The Rough-barked Mountain Ash of Gippsland (E. Sieberiana) is known also by the trivial names 

 of " Qumtop," "Silvertop," and "Bastard Ironbark." White Ironbark grows from near the sea level to 

 an e'evation of about 3,500 feet, where it abriiptly ceases. It is found extensively as the main forest tree 

 in many parts of Gippsland as at Walhalla, Wilson's Promontory, the Omeo Roa.d, Gelantipy, ic. It 

 also grows in places in the northern fall of the Divide." 



Jb'ollowing is a note by him on the same tree : — 



" Yowut " or " Mountain Ash," near the top of the ridge half way from Eaglehawk to the Thomson 

 River. The bark is deeply eroded, but not so deeply as the Ironbark in Western Victoria. It becomes 

 smoother in the upper part of the bole and the limbs are always more or less smooth. The extreme twigs 

 are reddish in coloui'. The young saplings h-ive often in the upper part a smooth bluish-grey bark. The 

 branches shoot up pretty straight. 



New South Wales. 



It is plentiful about l^ort Jackson, Broken Bay, Port Hacking, and Counties 

 of Cumberland and Camden genei-ally. It is common on the Blue Mountains. 



Soiitheni LocaHiies. — " Eucalyptus virgata, Sieb., ' Mountain Ash.' Ti'ee, 

 120-150 ft. Bark, persistent, ridged. Eden, New South Wales (Oldfield)." 

 Oldtield's specimens from this locality in several herbaria are E. Sieberiana, E.v.M. 



Nos. 266 and 370 of S. Mossman, Tororago (Tarago?), Twofold Bay (it is 

 really near Braidwood, but on the old road to Twofold Bay), in Herb. Cant. 

 Specimens collected in 1854, presumably for the Paris Exhibition. 



On the cliffs at Eden, also Pipe Clay to Eden (J.H.M.). The lower parts of 

 the filaments (especially before expansion) are purple, giving the flowers an orna- 

 mental " eye." 



From 4-5,000 feet on dry ridges. Snowy Mountains (resembling the Victorian 

 specimen) (W. Baeuerlen) ; Nimitybelle (A. Rudder), and Tantawanglo Mountain 

 (W. Baeuerlen). In both these adjacent localities known as " Mountain Ash " and 

 *' Black Ash." 



Copy of original label of Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, late New South Wales Govern- 

 ment Geologist : — 



No. 6, " Stringybark, Messmate." Trees up to 4 feet in diameter growing straight and lofty, the 

 trunk covered with deeply furrowed fibrous bark of dark-brown colour, resembling that on Ironbark, but 

 not so hard. Branches and boughs smooth and white. Dromedary Ranges, 1,500 feet above sea-level. 

 Forination .Silurian, ■2nd November, 1878. 



This is E. Sieberiana and is referred to in " Eucalyptographia " (under 

 E. Sieberiana) , and also by me in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxix, 759 (1904). 



Conjola (W. Heron) ; Sugar Loaf Mountain, Braidwood (W. Baeuerlen) ; 

 Reedsdale, near Braidwood (H. Deane) ; Queanbeyan (H. Deane) ; Jervis Bay 

 (J.H.M.) ; Iron Pot Creek, Badgery's Crossing to Nowra (W. Forsyth); Cambe- 

 warra Mountain (J. V. de Coque). 



