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Local name, "Woolly Butt," aboriginal name, " Mudione." Height 130 ft., diam. 2 ft. 6 in. 

 Near Nelligen (J. S. Allan). As regards " Woolly Butt," this is a name that* as between E. botryoides and 

 E. saligna could only be applied to the former, yet the herbarium specimens are typical saligna. 



" Woolly Butt," South west Milton. The fruits rather like those of E. saligna (R. H. Cambage). 

 " W T oolly Butt," Burrill, Milton. The fruits like those of E. botryoides (R. H. Gwnbage). 



Going south, typical saligna may be found in the Bateman's Bay district, which is the southernmost 

 locality known to me. At p. 436 of my " Useful Native Plants of Australia " is a note of a specimen 

 (there referred to E. botyroides) which is very interesting. It is a " White or Scribbly Gum." 



Going north, E. botryoides is common from Sydney to Newcastle. What the northern range is can 

 only be ascertained by searching along the coast. 



We have also _ " Blue Gum" (the latter not seen in fruit, but apparently the same species), 

 Woolls. (B.F1. iii, 229, under E. botryoides). I both spoke and wrote to Dr. Woolls some years ago, and 

 he assured me that what he sent to Mr. Bentham was E. saligna. . 



Then again we have, under E. botryoides, in B.F1. iii, 229, " Var. with the ovary more conical in 

 the centre, and the operculum shortly beaked, Paterson's River, "Blue Gum," Herb. K. Brown." This 

 also is E. saligna. 



Victoria. — Mueller in his " Key to the System of Victorian Plants," excludes E. saligna as a 

 Victorian plant. He, however, includes E. botryoides, " finally tall, bark persistent, dark, rough," and 

 records it from the east (which includes Gippsland, but not alpine localities). 



Dr. A. W. Howitt wrote some years ago to me : — ■" Gippsland Mahogany," Eucalyptus botryoides. 

 Locally it seems to le well thought of. It is confined to certain localities near the coast of East Gipps- 

 land, not extending in the mainland west of the mouth of the Mitchell River, but in the sandy tracts 

 between the lakes and the sea, at least as far as Seacombe. In this part, however, as also generally in the 

 sandy coast-land, the timber is small. Timber of size for milling purposes grows, I think, only about the 

 Snowy River." 



The Victorian specimens in the National Herbarium, Sidney, all belong to E. botryoides. 



Metung (A. W. Howitt). I may mention that juvenile leaves from this locality, collected by Mr. 

 Howitt, precisely resemble those of typical E. saligna from Brisbane "Water. 



"Sea-coast at Lake King. Dr. F. Miiller." (E. botryoides in Bentham's handwriting.) 



" Mahogany tree of Snowy River" (W. H. Harvey, ex Herb. Hook.). 



E. Gippsland (E. E. Pescott through C. Walter). 



(Proc. Linn. Soc. F.S.W., xxx, 502-509 [1905].) 



2. With E. robusta Sm. 



Already referred to under E. robusta, p. 49. 



