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Habitat. — We have collected this form from Woodford to Cox's River (Bowenfels) and the 

 Jenolan Caves, and also at Mount Wilson. Further localities to connect with the coast will be looked 

 for. The most westerly locality from which it has been obtained is Mudgee, where it is called "Silvertop" 

 (which points to a bluish cast) according to Mr. R. T. Baker, who collected it ; also Corricudgy Mount, 

 K. T. Baker, October, 1897. 



We have the same form on the Clyde Mountain (southern mountain ranges), No. 31, W. Baeuerlen, 

 July, 1890. 



In the Outer Domain, Sydney, we have an interesting tree, which is au nature!, and which attracts 

 attention from the fact that it is more "bark-bound" than the majority of E. capitellata trees around Port 

 Jackson, that is to say, the bark, though fibrous in texture, is thinner, denser, and more closely appressed 

 to the trunk. 



The juvenile leaves and the intermediate leaves depart from the type, being narrower, more 

 lanceolate, and more closely resemble those of the Blue Mountains form just referred to. 



Incidentally, it may be remarked that the orbicular suckers of E. capitellata from type localities 

 (Port Jackson) would appear to be a product of an exposed situation. All the forms of E. capitellata 

 appear to have more or less lanceolate juvenile leaves in their earliest stage. 



Seedlings raised from typical capitellata trees early take on a lanceolar shape with entire margins. 

 This is succeeded by an undulate margin, with stellate hairs on the leaves and on the irregularly-toothed 

 margin and twigs. These display a complete similarity to those of the Blue Mountains, and it seems 

 impossible to assume that they do not belong to the same species. It would appear impossible to seize on 

 characters even to make a well-defined variety. 



Both of us have independently grown seedlings from Port Jackson and Port Hacking seed, and we 

 cannot sec any difference between the seedlings and those of the Blue Mountains trees. 



VlCTOBIA. 



There are two coastal forms of E. capitellata, as might be expected from the 

 extensive geographical range of the species — the New South Wales, and the 

 Victorian-South Australian. 



Howitt states in his " Eucalypts of Gippsland " that he has not seen it 

 growing there at a less elevation than 500 feet, and that it cannot, therefore, strictly 

 speaking, he called one of the littoral species. In New South Wales, and also near 

 the Victorian- South Australian border, it, however, often grows quite close to the sea. 



Mr. Howitt writes privately — " E. capitellata grows to a large size in the 

 mountain districts, for instance, Moondarra, Wandin Yallock, and elsewhere in the 

 Yarra watershed. In the western district the tree has usually a dwarfed habit." 



See also my observations on the Victorian specimens referred to E. capitellata, 

 var. (?) latifolia and E. Baxteri, svpra, p. 213. 



Form with rugose buds. — I now place together some further plants of this 

 species with more or less rugose buds. I have already drawn attention to the 

 subject,* and think that this tuberculate appearance will be found to be somewhat 

 common now that attention has been invited to it. The specimens from Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia (M. Koch) may be compared. 



I do not name this rugose-budded form as a variety, but, in view of the 

 difficulty of " breaking down " such a widely-diffused and variable species as 

 E. capitellata, it seems well to point out any prominent characters, to aid in 

 classification. 



* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 1004, p. 160. 



