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The following localities may be added to those given in Part VII, p. 187. 



Victoria. 



I cannot do better than cite the remarks of Mr. Harry Hopkins of Bairnsdale, 



a careful student of the genus : — 



It is known as " Cut-tail." I have found it in some of the jungle gullies between the Bemm River 

 and the Cann River in East Gippsland, also in the jungles on the north-east side of the Drummer Range 

 where the Orbost-Genoa road crosses the range. It occurs only, so far as I know, on the red-coloured 

 jungle soils (which I think are probably of volcanic origin). This is very noticeable at the Drummer Range, 

 where, as soon as the red clayey jungle soil is left and the granitic formation entered upon, it ceases altogether. 

 I noted the same thing at Bendoc, and other places. E. obliqua grows freely in these localities on the poorer 

 granitic soils, and overflows on the "jungle soil" country, but E. fastiycUa never crosses the border line 

 betweeD the two soils. 



New South Wales. 



Southern Localities. — " Stem up to first branches covered with thick fibrous 

 bark, like E. eugenioides, branches quite smooth, clean and almost white, like the 

 branches of a very clean Gum." Half way up the cutting, Big Jack Mountain, Eden- 

 Bombala Road (H. Hopkins). ' Woolly Butt, a large tree, something like E. gigantea 

 in appearance, shows a rough stringy bark, but cleans at the limbs. Timber in good 

 demand for milling." Parker's Gap, Parish of Ollabulla, between Queanbeyan and 

 Braidwood (W. A. W. de Beuzeville, No. 1). " White Top. Very like No. 1, but has 

 a comparatively smooth bark, more like a Messmate, but cleans up well at the large 

 limbs. A large tree. Timber in demand for sawmill work." Parker's Gap (W.A.W. 

 de Beuzeville, No. 2). " Broad-leaf Messmate. A large Messmate-looking tree, 

 esteemed for milling." Parker's Gap (W. A. W. de Beuzeville, No. 3). State Forest 

 No. 577, Tallaganda, Braidwood district (C. J. Weston, No. 55). Clyde Mountain, 

 near Nelligen (J. L. Boorman). Fibrous bark to branches, Nelligen Road, 6 miles from 

 Braidwood (R. H. Cambage, No. 2067). " White Top Messmate," Fern Gully, 

 Reidsdale-Braidwood district (F. W. Wakefield, No. 20). " Tree of 60 feet, 2 feet in 

 diameter. Bark persistent to the uppermost branches and fibrous." Reidsdale (F. W. 

 Wakefield, No. 26). Currockbilly, Wog AVog district (J. L. Boorman). Close to summit 

 of Mount Dromedary (Forest Guard William Dunn, No. 139). " Called ' Silver Top ' on 

 Tantawanglo Mountain at Montgomery's Mill. Also ' Cut Tail ' in Coast Range. 

 (Both names used by timber inspector of Railway Construction Department.) 

 ' Brown Barrel.' ' Rossi, near Bungendore (Forest Guard Boyd). " Affinity to a 

 Messmate. Large tree on the red soil near Robertson." (Forest Guard W. Dunn, 

 No. 50). 



Western Localities. — " Tall tree of the Stringybark character." Marrangaroo 

 (Dr. E. C. Chisholm). " Top of Mount Werong, 30 miles south of Oberon, basalt 

 formation, 3,900 feet above sea-level." (R. H. Cambage, No. 2257). Jenolan Caves- 

 Oberon Road (F. W. Wakefield, No. 20). " Blackbutt, 80 feet, bark at butt of a 

 blackish colour, varying to a reddish brown, extending to the branches." — Oberon 

 (Assistant Forester H. W. Garling). " Blackbutt, one tree measured 83 feet to the 



