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In the " Flora Australiensis " we have the range stated : — 



Victoria. — Snowy River, Mitchell River, and Providence Ponds (Mueller). 



New South Wales. — Port Jackson (Woolls and others); " Bastard Box " (Woolls). [I have never 

 heard this name applied to this species. The late Rev. Dr. Woolls arrived in Sydney in the thirties, when 

 the names of trees were in a transition state, and some names which he heard tentatively applied dropped 

 out in course of time. J.H.M.J Macleay and Hastings Rivers (Beckler) ; Clarence River (Wilcox); 

 Richmond River (C. Moore). 



Queensland. — Brisbane River, Moreton Bay (A. Cunningham) ; Keppel Bay, Broad Sound, Shoal- 

 water (R. Brown); Percy Island (A. Cunningham); Port Denison (Fitzalan, Dallachy); "Red Gum and 

 Blue Gum," Rockingham Bay (Dallachy); Bay of Inlets (Banks and Solander). 



[At most of the northern localities, var. latifolia was the form collected]. 



Mueller in " Eucalyptographia " states the range thus :— 



From the Gilbert and Burdekin Rivers (Queensland) to Gippsland (Victoria), ascending to New 

 England, advancing inland to the Gwydir, and some other western streams of New South Wales, but never 

 very far removed from littoral regions, traced already by R. Brown northward to the Northumberland 

 Islands, occupying generally humid flats or growing around swamps and lakes or along watercourses, never 

 on saline ground or saltwater streams. 



As regards the Northumberland Islands, var. latifolia is referred to. 



Victoria. 

 Mr. H. Hopkins states its range in this State in the following words : — 



The best known and most valuable of our timbers — the Red Gum — is confined to the lower alluvial 

 flats and river valleys, and in Gippsland is alniost entirely confined to the river basins of the Latrobe, 

 Thompson, Avon, Mitchell, Nicholson, and Tambo, and the alluvial deltas that lie between these rivers, 

 and between the lakes and the foothills to the north. It extends inland along the valley of the Macalister 

 River as far as Glenmaggie, but generally it does not extend beyond a comparatively short distance from 

 the coast. Except for a few trees at Cunninghame, and two on the aboriginal Teserve at Lake Tyers, 

 there is no Red Gum in Gippsland east of the Tambo River. This species, however, is found further north 

 in New South Wales in some of the river valleys running into the sea, and also in Queensland. The Murray 

 River Red Gum (E. rostrata) is almost identical with the Gippsland species, differing only in some of the 

 floral characteristics. The timber of the two varieties is indistinguishable, although the Gippsland 

 Red Gum used to be considered the more durable. It is generally stated that the E. rostrata does not 

 grow in Gippsland, but some two years ago I discovered a tree, undoubtedly of this species, growing on 

 the bank of the Latrobe River near Sale. 



Following are some specimens represented in the National Herbarium of New 

 South Wales :— 



Beechworth (A. W. Howitt) ; Chiltern (J. Staer). 



Bell's Point, Metung, Gippsland (A. W. Howitt). The Victorian form of the 

 species is quite normal. Mr. Howitt states that E. tereticornis is confined almost 

 entirely to that pait of Victoria; he has only observed it elsewhere in the extreme 

 north-eastern district. He also observes that the forests of this species in Gippsland 

 have suffered for thirty years from the attacks of larvae of a moth which devour the 

 upper and under surfaces of the leaves and thus ultimately kill the tree. : ' Whole forests 

 for instance at Nimbin and Lindenow have within my knowledge been thus killed." 



Similar attacks on this species have been observed in coastal New South Wales. 



