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Bendick Murrell (W. Burke); " Blue White Box."" My husband tells me that in his 

 experience in the last twenty-five } r ears in this district the sheep will eat readily the 

 ' Blue White Box,' which grows on gravelly country, but the ' Green White Box ' 

 (E. microcarpa) which is found on flat country, they do not care for." Cooyong, 

 Crowther (Mrs. G. L. Pring) ; Back Yamma State Forest No. 253, parishes of Wise 

 and Dowling, Forbes district, county of Ashburnham (Forester A. H. Lawrence) ; 

 Bedullick Reserve, about 22 miles from Queanbeyan (Forester R. C. Blacket) ; 

 Queanbeyan-Yass road, growing on the north-north-east slopes of the hill near 

 Canberra, and not very abundant (C. T. Weston, No. 50); "White or Grey Box." 

 Fairly common from The Oaks to Yerranderie (J. L. Boorman). 



Western Districts. — " Plentiful in direction of Tuena, but close to the township 

 of Turnkey the soil is too poor for this tree to thrive in. Tree most valuable for apiarists 

 who have settled in the district" (J. L. Boorman); Allan Cunningham's Macquarie 

 River specimen collected on Oxley's Expedition in 1817. was distributed under No. 198; 

 Bathurst (Dr. H. I. Jensen). 



Northern Districts. — White Box, Murrurundi (Forest Guard L. A. Macqueen, 

 No. 10); White. Box, 40 feet high, with girth of 5 feet. On red soil Murrurundi to 

 Timor, county Brisbane (Forest Guard M. H. Simon, No. 47); Currabubula (R. H. 

 Cambage, No. 3,556) ; by far the most important Eucalypt in the district, on nearly 

 all formations, but most dense on the shaly hills, Tamworth (W. M. Carne); the 

 common Box, Barraba (Rev. H. M. R, Rupp) ; Box, Kiera, Bingara district (E. H. F. 

 Swain, No. 14); Bora, Bingara district (E. H. F. Swain, No. 16); "Gum, box-like 

 trunk, Gum-top," Black Soil Plains, Namoi River, 5 miles from Boggabri; also 

 Arrarownie, Borah Creek, Pilliga (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 153) ; " Stunted tree of 30-40 

 feet, blue-leaf, smooth top (branches), shaggy, sub-fibrous bark," Ironstone Ridge, 

 Baradine (E. H. F. Swain, No. 21); "Box, smooth top (branches), blue-leaf, low, 

 spreading branches," Warrumbungle Range (E. H. F. Swain, No. 33) ; " Height 30 feet, 

 girth 4 feet, Box, smooth, yellow bark on branches, on grey gravelly soil, Forest Reserve 

 No. 1,263, parish Leard, county Nandewar (Forest Guard M. H. Simon, No. 24). 



Queensland. 



Slopes of Buhya Mountains (C. T. White, No. 28) ; Gowrie, Little Plain (W. F. 

 Gray). 



