The following localities arc represented in the National Herbarium, 
Sydney : 
" Mr. Slater, of the Works Department', informs me that ho saw it at 
head of the Paterson, on the same line of range at the head of the Barrington 
and Manning. I saw it myself coming across from the Hunter watershed at 
Gloucester" (Mr. W. Heron, of the Dorrigo, who knows the district well). 
Upper Gloucester River; Upper waters of Manning; Comboyne; parish of 
Vernon, Port Macquarie district. 
' The Negro-head Beech has recently (1890) been discovered by Mr. MacDonald, 
one of our Forest Rangers, on Mount Bandi Bandi or Kippara, near Kempsey, which 
is a new habitat for it '' ('ate Forest Inspector Duff). 
Amending the Dorrigo Mountain from the Bellinger, the first Fajuv trees to be seen are. on the banks 
of Rocky Creek. They are here of a height of 100 feet, and a diameter of 2 or 3 feet and more. When 
we are thoroughly in the Dorrigo. commencing at Beilsdown Creek, the Fagus is in the greatest luxuriance. 
It is found following the course of all the creeks, often it skirts the edge of the brush, but it is also found 
a considerable distance in the forest. It would be difficult to estimate the number of Fagus trees in the 
Dorrigo, but it must be enormous. From the Dorrigo it extends westerly and south-westerly as far as 
Bald Hills Station, at the back of Guy Fawkes, where it is present in large quantity in the gullies. This, 
I believe, is its most western locality, passing south to the county boundary of counties Dudley and Clark, 
and the western slopes of Mount Kippara. in the Macleay district. I am informed that it is also found 
in the rough country in the north-west of the county of Gloucester. This must remain its most southern 
locality, as far as our knowledge gow at present. Its most northern locality would be on the Tooloom 
Run, on the main Clarence River, where Mr. Greaves has recently found it. It would appear that Far/us 
Moorei rarely descends much below 3,00') feet. It is worthy of note that cedar and Fagus do not grow 
together. 
(J.H.M., in Ayric. Gaz. N.R.W., vol. v, p. 627 (1894). 
" The former is of gregarious habit. I have seen it in considerable quantity 
in several places in the upland brushes bordering New England, even before it had 
been reported upon by any others, excepting that at Dorrigo " (Augustus Rudder). 
" Found anywhere in Dorrigo in creeks and watercourses. No commercial 
value at present. Always grows in clayey ground, generally poor, on banks of creeks, 
though also found on flat ridges of good red soil above creeks. Will not thrive without 
plenty of moisture " (Robert Kaleski, a former resident of the Dorrigo). 
Head of Clarence Waters. 3-5 feet, 130-150 feet. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 258. 
A. Flowering twig. Dorrigo, \.S.W. (male flowers only), 
is. Flowering twig. Cultivated in Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 
c. Cupule with nut enclosed. 
T>. Cupule empty. 
E. Female flowers (one threo-angular and three-winged ; one flattened 
and two-winged). 
F. Male flower. 
0. Involucre. 
H. Anther. 
1. Bracts. 
C 0-1 from the Dorrigo. 
