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collect the species at points intermediate between Braidwood and New England. 

 In the latter district it is sometimes known as " messmate " and " bastard stringy- 

 bark." At Yarrowitcli it is known as " white stringybark," and has been used for 

 building purposes, e.g., verandah floors; but it lacks durability in the ground. The 

 sucker-foliage is very coarse. I have leaves 6x5 inches. — (Maiden in JProc. Aust. 

 Assoc. Adv. Science, 1898, p. 539.) 



Upper Williams River (A. Rudder). 



The following letter to me is interesting, not only because it brings the 

 recorded localities of the species some miles to the west, but because it embodies 

 other experiences of a well-known observer : — 



The eucalypt mentioned by you (E. obliqua) is abundant here. In this country it is found on poor 

 stony ranges chiefly. It attains a great sizp, up to 8 or 9 feet or even more in diameter ; such trees are 

 usually short-stemmed. It is said it will not last as posts, but I have never been given satisfactory proof 

 as to its unfitness. A mile or two of fence is erected ; the posts are mixed, probably split from three or 

 four different kinds of stringybark. Then twelve or fifteen years later, who can say which is the best ? 

 Certainly not the average bushman. It is often, I know, too short to run into rails. I have seen trees 

 that you could not run into 7 foot posts even if struck 6 inches thick. I split a tree of this species 85 feet 

 in length of barrel by 2 feet in diameter ; it flowered here last season in January, the trees being great 

 masses of bloom, very noticeable, although distant on the ranges from 1 to 2 miles. It is known here as 

 Woolly-butt, Woolly-bark, or White Stringybark.— (A. R. Crawford, Moona Plains, Walcha, July, 1898.) 



I have a specimen collected by Leichhardt, in 1S43, at the head of the 

 Gwydir. It is in leaf only, but there is no doubt as to its identity. 



Mr. W. Baeuerlen has since collected it at Mount Mackenzie, near 

 Tentcrfield. This is near the Queensland border, and it may be expected to be 

 found about Stanthorpc, in the latter State. 



