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I have seen the type from Mount Aberdeen, which is a very markedly veined, 

 large, young leaf ; also specimens marked " Gippsland, Mueller," in flower. — (Herb. 

 Calcutta.) I have examined a specimen (Van Dieman's Land, C. Stuart) bearing, 

 in Miquel's handwriting, the words " E. phlebophylla, M.," with the words " E. 

 submidtipUnervis affinis " cancelled. — (Herb. Melb.) 



Some of Gunn's specimens in European herbaria labelled "■Eucalyptus 

 radiata," with glaucous buds, really belong to E. coriacea. Some of them are 

 labelled "very common about Hobart Town," and -"Weeping Gum of Norfolk 

 Plains." The true E. radiata, Sieb., is much less likely to be confused with 

 E. coriacea, A. Cunn., than the forms (E. radiata, Hook., f. non Sieb.) that Hooker 

 took to be E. radiata. 



Var. alpina, F.v.M. (B.F1. iii, 201). 



Leaves short and nearly straight. Flowers rather smaller and peduncles shorter. 



Mountains on Macalister River, Vic. (B.FL). Specimens of this variety from 

 Mount Kosciusko, in our own State, are very glaucous. Leaves 2 inches long, or a 

 little more. 



Following is an account of the Mount Kosciusko trees : — The Snow Gum is a 

 small-leaved form of E. coriacea, resembling E. stellulata a good deal in leaf outline, 

 and might be mistaken for it. At low elevations it is a large tree ; as the mountain 

 is ascended it becomes smaller and smaller, till at length it becomes a dense whip- 

 stick scrub, and finally (at 6,000 feet, about) disappears altogether. It forms the 

 limit of tree vegetation. It is usually as glaucous as if it had been sprinkled with 

 flour, but not invariably so, and at the Jindabyne level it is frequently scarcely 

 glaucous.* 



" Forming the ' Tree line.' — The trees of this species at the highest elevations 

 are remarkable for their bare stems, surmounted with a dome or flatfish top of 

 leaves. The bare stems are, doubtless, the consequence of winds, the leaves being 

 concentrated on the top as a thin ' layer,' and offering minimum resistance to the 

 wind. These dwarf trees are in masses of a fairly uniform height ; a different 

 arrangement would result in the crown of leaves of the smaller plants being beaten 

 against the bare stems of their taller brethren, and denuded of their foliage. The 

 grotesque leaning forms of the stems, like guys or supports to resist wind-pressure, 

 are shown in one of the illustrations. ■ In many cases the butt of the tree forms a 

 huge protuberance at the ground level, taking on a peculiar plastic appearance often 

 seen in the coast districts in E. maculata (Spotted Gum) and Angophora lanceolata 

 (Smooth -barked Apple). In E. coriacea, from this protuberance there spring out as 

 many as four (and even more) stems of equal diameter, such stems being equi- 

 distant from each other, or nearly so."f 



- J. H. Maiden : A Contribution towards the Flora of Mount Kosciusko (Agric. Gazette, N~.S. W., July, 1898). 

 t J. H. Maiden : A Second Contribution towards a Flora of Mount Kosciusko (Agric. Gazette, N.S. IF., October, 1899). 



