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(/) 1098. Large tree (20 feet ?), bark rough, cracked, light brown. Hill at 



Head of Ralph's Bay.. 13th October, 1840 (J. D. Hooker). 

 (m) Xo number. Near Mount Direction. 18th July, 1842. 



Recherche Bay, near the extreme south of the Island. Labillardiere collected 

 - here in 1802. Some leaves on a fruit-bearing twig 8 cm. long by as much as 4-5 cm. 

 broad (J.H.M.). Southport, 1,900 feet (Charles Stuart). Southport, near sea- 

 level (J.H.M.). 



Adventure Bay. locality visited in January, 1777, on Cook's Third Voyage, by 

 David Xelson and Mr. Anderson, Surgeon of H.M.S. "' Resolution/' who here collected 

 the first Eucalyptus (obliqua) (J.H.M.). 



Beltana, Hobart (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.). 



"Eucalyptus Gannii Hook. f. '"'Red Gum'"' Van Diemensland Oldfield." In 

 Miguel's handwriting. See N(d. Kruidk. Arch, iv (1856). 



Derwent (Robert Brown, 1802-5). Also a similar specimen by the same collector 

 labelled by Berlin E. acervula Miq. 



"With rather small fruits, Huonville (R. H. Cambage, Xo. 2547), 12 feet high, 

 spreading, bark smooth, Richmond Road (L. Rod way) ; Kingston; Muddy Plains 

 (Rodway): Mount "Wellington (A. H. S. Lucas); River Derwent (Abbott); Xorth West 

 Bay. Broadish leaves (Cresswell). 



One about 40 yards from the biggest was 60 feet at 4 feet from tbe ground, and at 130 must bare 

 been fullv 40 feet in circumference : it was without buttresses, but went up one solid massive column, 

 without the least symptom of decay. . . The largest we measured was, at 3 feet from the ground, 

 102 feet in circumference, and at the ground 130 feet. We had no means of estimating its height, so dense 

 was the neighbouring forest, above which, however, it towered in majestic grandeur. This noble Swamp 

 Gum is still growing (1849) and shows no sign of decay. (Rev. T. J. Ewing in Papers and Proc. R.S. 

 Tan Die/men's Land, i, 165. 1851.) 



The above magnificent trees were in the vicinity of the Xorth "West Bay River. 



It is probably the largest tree in Tasmania. The following notes concerning it 

 (the Swamp Gum) will be useful. Hooker quite pardonably confused the Swamp Guru 

 with the Stringybark, and with his E. giga.ntea. 



Hooker, in Flora of Tasmania, i, 132, refers to papers by Milligan, Mitchell, 



Watson. Hall and Ewing respecting .... "Swamp Gum, Stringybark."' He 



says that : — ' 



The Swamp Gum and Stringybark are perhaps both referable to my E. gigantea under which two 

 species mav be confounded by me, or the Swamp Gum may be some other species attaining a gigantic size 

 in damp hollows. Mr. Mitchell describes the Swamp Gum as so very like E. globulus as not to be easilv 

 distinguished, but with smaller leaves and thinner bark, as being the largest of the genus, and growing 

 twice as fast as E. globulus: he mentions 251 feet to the first branch. The stringybark he distinguishes 

 bv its much thicker fibrous bark: Mr. Milligan, however, adds in a note that this stringybark is the most 

 gigantic of all, that it is well named gigantea by me. . . . Lastly, the Reverend Mr. Ewing gives details 

 of a Swamp Gum tree, also hollow, found near Hobarton, which was 130 feet in circumference at the ground, 

 and 102 fett at 3 feet above it. 



" Black Gum," opercula pointed, Eastern marshes ; also west of Cockatoo Valley 

 (T.Stephens). " ' ' " 



