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eastern and western fall of those mountains. The trees are fairly abundant, and 

 are to be found growing to a heigbt of from 100 to 150 feet, with a girth of from 

 6 to 10 feet. In New England (Yarrowitch) it is associated with JEJ. viminalis. 



Howitt (Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict. II, Pt. 1, 1890, p. 92), 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. The 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 

 be 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. 

 Tantawanglo Mountan (H. Deans and J. H. M.). 



"Messmate," Candelo (A. 11 udder), " Tororago" (PTarago), Twofold Bay, 

 S. E. Australia, No. 268, S. Mossman." In Herb. Cant, ex herb. Lemann. 

 Doubtless Tarago, via Braidwood, on an old route to Twofold Bay. 



" "Woolly-topped Messmate," Irish Corner Mountain, Reidsdale, Sugar-loaf 

 Mountain, and around Monga (Eorester 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. 

 Eibrous bark to tips of branches. Inner bark pale yellow, leaves large." 



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

 either E. pilalaris, var. Muelleriana or B. acmenoides. 



'Northern. 



Three miles past Myrtle Scrub (near Yarrowitch, Hastings River to Walcha), 

 one comes across a handsome forest, in basalt country, consisting mainly of a smooth- 

 barked eucalypt (viminalis) , and a rough-barked one (obliqua). The discovery of 

 the latter species in this part of the State was quite unexpected, and extends its 

 northern range very considerably. The trees were over 100 feet high, and their 

 trunks 3 feet and more in diameter, so that the trees are fine specimens, and not the 

 depauperate forms of mere outliers or pickets. One of my travelling companions 

 (Mr. J. E. Campbell, L.S., of Walcha), stated that this belt of country 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 least as far north as the 

 Clarence River, and also in Callaghan's Swamp. It would be interesting now to 



