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Victoria. 



"Peppermint," Hesket, near Mount Macedon, 2,000 feet (J. M. Griffiths), is 

 identical with the "Swamp Gum" (Abbott), and Deal Island specimens. It is 

 worthy of remark that this is from an inland locality. 



New South Wales. 



In 1901 (Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., p. 125), Mr. Deane and I described, 

 under the name of E. hcemastoma, Sm. var. montana, a shrubby plant, only two or 

 three feet high, from Mount Victoria, collected by myself. The bark of so small a 

 shrub was no guide, and the blood-red rims decided us to place it with E. hcemastoma, 

 a pardonable error, as it obviously strongly resembles that species. 



Since then, however, I have obtained typical E. amygdalina, var. nitida, and 

 I find that these specimens closely resemble Gunn's No. 808, e.g., Currie's River, 

 Tasmania. The pale brown fruits, with the dark red-brown rims, arrest attention. 

 The only point in which I can distinguish the Mount Victoria specimens from those 

 of Currie's River consists in the more obvious oil-glands of those from Mount 

 Victoria, but this may be in a measure owing to the age (over 60 years) of the 

 Tasmanian specimens. The similarity of the specimens is remarkable, when it is 

 borne in mind that the Tasmanian specimens are mostly from the sea-coast, while 

 Mount Victoria is an inland mountain locality. In a paper * I have given very 

 definite evidence of the absolute similarity of many Tasmanian and New South Wales 

 plant forms, and this is an additional example. 



I have specimens from the Jenolan Caves (W. F. Blakeley) which are the 

 nearest approach I have yet seen in New South Wales to Hooker's figure of 

 E. nitida, which, as already pointed out, varies somewhat from Gunn's 808. Froru 

 the south, e.g. Wingello (J. L. Boorman, Nov., 1899), I have specimens with fruits 

 smaller than those of var. nitida, and with filiform pedicels like those of (although 

 shorter than) var. numerosa. Also, from the south I have from Monga, near 

 Moruya, on the coast (W. Baeuerlen, July, 1898), a remarkable form which 

 resembles that of var. nitida a good deal. Some of its leaves are, however, 

 exceptionally broad, and their shape and venation reminiscent of E. stellulata. 

 Fruits with valves slightly exserted and more pedicellate than the type. 



From Mount Wilson (Jesse Gregson and J.H.M.) I have obtained specimens 

 with coarser fruits than those from Wingello, and more pedicellate. They come 

 nearest to var. nitida. 



Thus we have additional evidence of the evident impossibility of drawing a 

 hard-and-fast line between the species and its varieties. 



second contribution towards the Flora of Mount Kosciusko" — [Agric. Gazette, N.S. W., 1S99) 



