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The Queensland Naturalist August, 1932 
B0TANIS1NG IN TASMANIA. 
(By C. T. White.) 
(Resume of lecture delivered before Queensland 
Naturalists’ Club, 21st March, 1932.) 
Broadly speaking, Tasmania, unlike the Australian 
mainland, is practically all forest-covered. The forests are 
of two main types (a) open Eucalyptus forest, and (b) 
tern p e r a t e r a i n- f or # e s t . 
Around the coast, right on the low coastal dunes and 
immediately behind them, the She Oak, (Uisuarina strict- a, 
is very abundant. In some localities on the east coast a 
Cypress Pine, Callitris iasmanico , conies down to the sea 
where the coast is at all rocky, though usually it is more 
abundant on low hills some distance inland. A large forest 
reserve near Swansea is set aside principally for 1 lie con- 
servation and natural regeneration of this pine. 
The open Eucalyptus forest varies considerably in 
composition, according to locality and habitat. On the 
low hills round the coast Eucalyptus viminalis (Manna 
Cum), Eucalyptus amygdalina (Peppermint), with in 
places its offshoots, E. lineras and E. Risdoni, and 
Eucalyptus obliqua are the principal Eucalypts. With 
these is associated a mixture of other trees and shrubs with 
a. marked xerophytic habit, o.g., Casuarina subcrosa, 
Oodonaca viscosa, Bcycria opaca , Bur sari a spinosa, 
BanJcsia rnarginata, etc. 
Following the gullies up there is a good mixture of 
more shade-loving trees and shrubs; Eucalyptus globulus 
and E. obliqua are two very common large trees. Of small 
trees and large shrubs the following are all common: — 
Pittosporum bicolor, Pomadcrris apetala , Prostantliera 
lasiuntJi os, Zieria Sin itJi ii va r. macroph ylla, Bed ford in 
salicina , Lcpfospcrmum lanigcrum , Coprosma hirtcUa , C. 
BMardieri and Pimelea drupacea . 
At approximately 2,500ft. altitude the forest changes, 
becoming thicker with more undergrowth. Many fine 
flowering shrubs, such as the Olearias (notably 0. pini- 
f alia and (). Persoonioides ) , Bauer a rubioides, Senecio 
ccntropappus, Lcptospennum lanigerum, various Epacri- 
dacae, etc., make their appearance. At this level, Halccu - 
acicularis is a very common small tree, with elongated 
terete leaves, further up in more exposed situations it 
becomes dwarfed to a shrub with much shortened leaves. 
Further on at about 3,000ft. altitude the Beech Myrtle 
( Notiiofagus Cunninghamii) is abundant, though mostly 
dwarfed in the open forest to little more than a shrub. 
Some of the more alpine Eucalypts now become common, 
c.g., Eucalyptus urnigera (Urn Gum), E. Gunnii (Cider 
Gum), and E. cocoifcra (Mountain Peppermint), the last 
confined to Tasmania and ascending to the 4,000ft. level. 
