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Following are two historical specimens. They are co-types. " Banks of the 

 Grose." Robert Brown, 1802-5. (Presented by J. J. Bennett at the 1876 distribution 

 from the British Museum, No. 4776. ) 



" Snuff-coloured bark Eucalyptus, Grose, September, 1804, F2." (George 

 Caley. ) (Presented by British Museum through Dr. A. B. Bendle, No. 42.) (Grose 

 Head on other specimens. ) 



Grose's Head was a name originally given by Caley himself. There is a reference 

 to its use by Bligh on 31st October, 1807 (Hist. Rec. Aust. vi, 145), who speaks of it 

 as " A high, commanding situation called Grose's Head." The name is several times 

 used by Blaxland in his " Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains 

 in the year 1813." One of the references is that at Glenbrook Lagoon, " the high land 

 of Grose Head appeared before them at about 7 miles distance, bearing north by east." 

 Mr. Alexander Wilson told me that Grose Head is a bluff at the junction of Burralow 

 Creek and Grose River (a few miles from the junction of the latter with the Nepean), 

 parish of Burralow, county of Cook. 



Mr. R. H. Camtage and I, in 1906, saw it when we ascended the Grose River 

 from the Nepean. We could only progress about 5 miles from the Nepean junction to 

 the head of navigation. We then came to large sandstone boulders, but could hardly 

 progress a short distance over them, and continued progress was impossible. Looking 

 up the stream, the fine bluff of Grose Head was the prominent feature of the landscape. 

 It is easy to suppose that Caley saw it from this position. 



Northern localities. — Eetween 17-19 mile-posts, Galston road, Hornsby (W. F. 

 Blakely). At the Linnean Society's excursion of the 27th April, 1889, numerous 

 individuals, including some very fine trees, of this species were found at the junction 

 of the Berowra Creek with the Hawkesbury River. This was the most northerly locality 

 known for a number of years. (Henry Deane and J.H.M. ) 



I am indebted to Mr. W. F. Blakely for the following notes on the occurrence 

 of this species between Hornsby and Hawkesbury River, including its association with 

 E. squamosa Deane and Maiden : — 



There are several fine belts of this species on the eastern and north-eastern spurs of the rugged 

 sandstone country along BerowTa Creek, from the Galston Valley, on the Galston road between the 17-19 

 mile-posts, to Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River; and also in similar situations in various places 

 throughout the Kuring-gai Chase; namely, on the Gibberygong track, Kuring-gai Chase boundary line, 

 2 miles east of Hornsby ; Bobbin Head (plentiful) ; along the Chase road to Mt. Colah (two patches) ; 

 close to railway line at Kuring-gai, Berowra, Cowan and Hawkesbury River stations. It is also common 

 at various points along Cowan Creek. For instance, fine specimens are to be seen at Windybanks and at 

 Jerusalem Bay. 



On the Pittwater side of the Chase there is a patch of it towards the head of Cowan Creek. 



It is interesting to note that besides occupying the highest points in the strip of country between 

 Manly and Brooklyn, E. eximia descends to the sea-level, attaining its greatest development on the lower 

 levels, but some really good specimens are met with at considerably high elevations. 



