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the typical form. The hark is very yellow when freshly cut, also the timber, hence 

 its Gippsland name of " Yellow Stringybark." The timber is valued for building 

 purposes, being used for flooring and weatherboards, &c. It occurs in many places 

 in the coast mountain ranges, both north and south. It is a very clean timber, and 

 grows large. Mr. Crawford, of Wingello, who was born in the district, and who 

 has been a worker among timber all his life, writes to me : " While I call it ' White 

 Mahogany,' and sometimes ' Yellow Stringybark,' the coast people call it 

 'Blackbutt.'" 



"Towards and under Table Mountain, Milton;" also Mount Kembla (R. H. 

 Cambage). 



Western New South Wales localities are : — 



"Stringybark," Kanimbla Valley. A small-fruited form. Botanists may 

 look upon as a large-fruited form of E. eugenioicles, Sieb. (Fig. 7, PL 4.) The 

 seedlings would settle the relative closeness to E. pilularis or E. eugenioicles. 



Nullo Mountain, Rylstone, and Gulf Road, Rylstone (R. T. Baker) ; and 

 typical of his E. Icecopinea. 



"Mountain Stringybark" (A. Rudder).* Identical with the Gulf Road 

 specimen. The valves well exserted, and the rim exceptionally broad. (Rig. 16, PI. 4.) 



Moonan Plat (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). Large fruits. (Pig. 22, PL 4). 



Murrurundi (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). 



" Stringybark," Warrah Creek (Jesse Gregson). (Fig. 17, PL 4.) 



Tenterfield, via Cottesbrooke, to Sandy Plat, just west of Dividing Range 

 (J.H.M). (Pig. 25, PL 4.) 



Mr. Henry Deane (No. 302) collected a very interesting Stringybark or 

 " Blackbutt " from the Glen Innes District (Hartley's Mill). (Pig. 19, PL 4). The 

 fruits are larger than those of E. eugenioicles usually are, and have a well-defined 

 prominent rim, grooved on the outer edge, and show a tendency to exsertion of the 

 valves. The specimens undoubtedly present affinity to E. eugenioicles ; but I think 

 they come nearer to E. piliildris, var. Muelleriana, the fruits being a little more 

 pear-shaped than usual. They are identical with the small fruit from Warrah. 

 (Pig. 17, PL 4.) 



Queensland. 



The Tenterfield specimens were collected a few miles from the Queensland 

 border, and I do not doubt that a precisely similar form extends into that State. 

 The Southern Queensland forms (E. semicorticata, &c), already alluded to, would 

 by many botanists be placed under var. Muelleriana. In fact, they help to prove 

 that it is quite impossible to maintain E. pilularis and E. Muelleriana as separate 

 species. 



* These specimens were referred to by Deane and Maiden, Proc. Linn. Soc, JV <S. IF., 1896, S03. 



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