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stringybark trees (Eucalyptus ohliqua) on the Emu Eiver. I content myself 

 with quoting three. The first was 45 feet in circumference, and the sup- 

 posed height 180 feet; the top broken. The second was 55 feet in circum- 

 ference; supposed to be upwards of 200 feet high. He measured, near 

 Hampshire Hills, two trees that had been felled for splitting into rails, each 

 180 feet long. 



Habitat. — It is found in Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, and New 

 South '.Wales. 



ISTbw South Wales. 



It extends fropi south to north of the State. Its northernmost limit is a 

 matter for further investigation, but it extends nearly to the Queensland 

 border. It is fc/und growing in company with E. gonicalyx and other 

 species on the Irish Comer Mountain, Reidsdale, Sugarloaf Mountain, and 

 around Monga, both on the eastern and western fall of those mountains. 

 The trees arc fairly abundant, and are to be found growing to a height of 

 from 100 to 150 feet, with a girth of from 6 to 10 feet. In New England 

 f(Yarrowitch) it is associated with E. viminalis. 



Howitt makes the statement, as regards Gippsland, that " it appears to 

 be essentially a littoral form, but ascends the mountains, &c." The first 

 part of this statement does not appear to hold true in New South Wales. 

 I'he tree grows right on the top of the ranges with us, and never in the 

 littoral lands, as far as observed. It frequents situations where it can bo 

 reached and enveloped in the sea-fogs; in this remote sense alone can the 

 word " littoral " be applied to trees with us. On the Tantawanglo Mountain 

 it grows abundantly, in company with " Cut-tail " and other Eucalypts, at 

 a height of about 3,000 feet above the sea. At Reidsdale it occurs at an 

 elevation of from 2,000 to 2,500 feet, and in New England nearly 4,000 feet. 



Southern. — Tantavpanglo Mountain (H. Deane and J.H.M.) ; " Messmate," 

 ■Candelo (A. Eudder) ; " Tororago " ( ? Tarago), Twofold Bay, S.E. Australia, 

 No. 266, S. Mossman. In Herb. Cant, ex herb. Lemann. Doubtless Tarago, 

 via Braid"wood, on an old route to Twofold Bay. ' 



"Woolly-topped Messmate,", Irish Corner Moimtain, Reidsdale, Sugarloaf 

 Mountain, and around Monga (Forester J. S. Allan). 



"Broad-leaf Messmate," Wingello (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). Mr. 

 Boorman's note on another occasion is : — " Large trees, wood of a yellowish 

 colour. Fibrous bark to tips of branches. Inner bark pale yellow, leaves 

 large." 



"White Mahogany,"' Wingello (A. Murphy), but not to be confused with 

 •either E. M'udleriana or E. acmenioides. 



Northern. — 'Three miles past Myrtle Scrub (near Yarrowitch, Hastings 

 Eiver to Walcha), one conjes across a handsome forest, in basalt country, 

 consisting mainly of a smooth-barked Eucalypt (viminalis),^ and a rough- 

 laarked one {ohliqua). The discovery of the latter species in this part of 

 the State was quite unexpected, aind extends its northern range very con- 

 siderably. The trees were over 100 feet high, and their trunks 3 feet and 

 more in diameter, so that the tres are fine specimens, and not the depauperate 

 forms of mere outliers or pickets. One of my travelling companions (Mr. 

 J. F; Campbell, L.S., of Walcha) stated that this belt of couiitry extended for 

 30 miles in a general direction of north and south, roughly following the 

 county boundary, and he believed that this species occurred over the greater 

 portion of that county. Mr. Nivison, of Yarrowitch, states it occurs at 



