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journey between Belair and Bridgewater. It alsp occurs on 
open rounded hills where the clay slates take the place of the r 
quartzites in the higher ranges. Such an association as this can ¥ 
be seen at Upper Sturt where the manna gum is mixed with f 
E. obliqua. \\diere it occupies the junction between E. odorata. 1 
and E. obliqua it shares the gullies wdth E. rostrata. Proceeding \ 
up Workunda Creek in National Park the manna gum appears 
above the lower falls with E. rostrata and E. obliqua higher up: ’ 
on the top of the range E. fascicidosa associates with it. At Long i 
Cully this species is growing on gullies sides having both northerly F 
and southerly aspects. Other plants associated with this species ^ 
are trees of Casiiarina stricta and E. leucoxlyon, the latter where ' 
it is found in the lower altitudes; Acacia melanoxylon, Banhia 
marginata and Bursatia sphiosa. 
\. DISTRIBUTION. 
We have noticed that the manna gum is a tree of the higher 
ranges and does not occur below the 1,200 feet level and is con- 
fined practically to the Mt. Lofty Range. Travelling from Adel- 
aide on the hills railway the first trees are noted as the second 
range of hills is entered beyond Belair at about IS miles. This 
comes in where the peppermint (£. odorata) stops and just before 
the occurrence of the white stringybark (£'. obliqua). This point 
is at an altitude of about 1200 feet above sea level. It extends 
to the higher parts of the range past Long Gully to Ambleside. 
J. E. Brown records (1) the distribution as follows: — Eyre 
Peninsula, Memory Cove; Kangaroo Island, Cygnet River; South 
East, Mt. Gambler to Rivoli Bay; Alt. Lofty Ranges, Southern 
p>art on slates 700 to 1300 feet above sea level, Clarendon, Clarej 
Auburn, Teatree Gully, Houghton. Mt. Pleasant, Waterfall Gully, 
Mountain Hut, Noarlunga and Yankalilla. _ 
(1) ‘Torest” Flora of “S.A.’^ Pa?t”7: — 
