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II, 359, as follows : — " The Eucalyptus, found on the sandy loam, is called by the settlers 

 York Gum, by the natives " Doatta " ; they use the bark of the root as food in the 

 dry season, chewing it along with the gum of the Manna (the Manna is an Acacia which 

 produces a large quantity of gum in the dry season. Common in the valley of the Avon, 

 Acaeiamicrocarpa)." I suggest that " Doatta/' : ' To-art," and " Tuart " were intended 

 by the blacks for the same class of tree. Perhaps they gave the name originally to the 

 York Gum, and afterwards the white man fitted it on the modern " Tuart." 



Mr. Bruce W. Leake, of Cardonia, Woolundra, Western Australia, in the Western 

 M ail for 30th December, 1920, says that the aborigines of the district give the following 

 names : — 



' York Gum, Dwidder ; Gimlet Gum, Narderup ; White Gum, Gwidder. South 

 of Quairading the name Ward is used for White Gum. While on the subiect of native 

 names, the blacks years ago must have named some of their different camps and watering 

 places after the trees, e.g., Dwiddercanning, where there is a thick patch of York Gums 

 (Dwidder). A rock-hole called Wurrukkutting must have derived its name from some 

 big clumps of Salmon Gum (Wurruk) in the vicinity." 



E. macrocarpa Hook., is the " Mottlecar " of the aborigines of the Bolgart district 

 (C. E. Lane-Poole). 



The original reports of scientific (I include those of surveyors, of course), 

 exploratory expeditions may still be profitably gone through for interpretation of native 

 names in view of our more accurate knowledge of species. I extracted most of the names 

 as this work proceeded. Take the expeditions of Mitchell, the Horn and Elder and the 

 Tietkens Expeditions, for example. 



Mr. John Allan, Forest Ranger, communicated to the Moruya Examiner, 

 New South Wales, in 1890, the following list of native names of indigenous trees in use 

 in the South Coast of New South Wales :— " Spotted Gum, Thurrancy; Blackbutt, 

 Yarrawarrah ; Ironbark, Goondera or Yarre ; Woollybut, Mudione ; Peppermint, Burrum 

 Burra ; Messmate, Pardaworda ; Stringybark, Goba ; Apple Tree, Ediade ; Mountain 

 Ash. Undawrea ; White Box, Berre Berre ; Box, Curowar ; Bloodwood, Culoul ; Red or 

 Grey Gum, Yaala; Swamp Mahogany, Berrera." 



In 1889 Forest Ranger G. R. Brown, for many years of Port Macquarie, gave me 

 the following names of trees on the Manning River, New South Wales. The suffix 

 " barng " meant a single tree, and " beit " more than one. " Spotted Gum (E. maculata), 

 Karoobarng; Blackbutt (E. pilularis) Goolerbarng; Bloodwood (E. corymbosa), 

 Koorebarng; Tallow-wood (E. microcorys), Wombebarng; Forest Box, Birringbarng ; 

 White Mahogany (E. acmeniodes), Bunnargbarng ; Red Mahogony (E. resinifera), 

 Bullaralbarng." 



Some names will be found in O'Shanesy's pamphlet " Contributions to Flora of 

 Queensland ", pp. 36, 37, et. seq. 



