o4 FOREST VEGETATION. 
Waitt Gum.—Group eee (specimen No. 9).—Bark : 
Wack at butt for a few feet, but above that is smooth and 
they are nearly i oposite Petiole, about an inch long, tanasolat 
Wood : wood is soft, and is not cons mene rable. Itis 
four feet, it is imposs ary to clear land by burning off, as the 
eavy logs cannot be kept alight. bar vessel: The seed-vessels 
are in umbels of thr ree, four, or five florets, supported on ve 
short pedicels. The pe eduncle i 18 bat three-tenths of an incl 
: ck and Rive aheeey: in the colder re 
Innes ; but the white box mixes largely in the forest a pth as 
soils in warmer climates, as on parts of Strathbogie Run. Those 
combinations, however, are chiefly on oo as the gum as 
the prevailing timber on the flats. It also grows on grani 
soils, where pepper Jacek mixes with it sliokt tly. On basaltic ar 
the parasite Loranthus aurantiacus (mistletoe) frequently grows 
on this tree. 
Yerrow Box.—Group ‘Siam ye No. 10).— 
f£ ree narro 
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Sesion range ‘of soil than the latter, which gro in 
argillaceous or granitic formations. They are both detec 
by a bright saffron-coloured undercoating to the bark, which 
: The um 
contain seven ober rets ; the pedu ts is twice as long as the 
icel ; the capsule and operculum are about ig in lente 
six-celled, and the valves ne sunk. Habits, §c.: The narro 
