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South Australia. 
Very common in this State, from near the coast far into the interior. In 
sending me specimens from the Mount Brown Forest Reserve, Mr. Walter Gill 
remarks :— 
Spencer’s Gulf is only a few miles due west. You may consider this a real Spencer’s Gulf Pine, as 
it is typical of thousands of similar trees all along the ranges, which rise immediately from the plain 
forming the borderland east*of the Gulf. 
The Horn Expedition only collected robusta, or as Mueller put it, “ verrucosa 
of the smooth-coned variety.” 
Victoria. 
In the Mallee country generally. Some specimens from Mildura (Mr. 
Borrett) have markedly furrowed valves. I draw attention to this because Bentliam, 
in the key (B.E1., vi. 235), places robusta in a section in which the “ junction of 
the valves is neither prominent nor furrowed.” It is hut another instance of the 
variation which obtains in the genus. 
New South Wales. 
It is abundantly distributed in the dry country west of the Dividing Range 
of this State. It is unnecessary to enumerate all the localities in the National 
Herbarium, but following are some notes, chiefly by foresters, some of them made 
some years ago, and now published for the first time :— 
There is no pine growing in any of the reserves in my district, which extends to the edge of the pine 
country about Wagga and Old Junee. I have searched the country between Old Junee and Wagga for 
pine, and have only found a few pines, and they chiefly in alienated lands. From Old Junee and Wagga 
towards Narrandera. you get into the pine-country which is out of my district. I have seen a little pine 
in the Camping Reserve at Alfred Town, on the banks of the Murrumbidgee, but no quantity, and also a 
small quantity between Upper and Lower Tarcutta, but very small.—(Forester Mecham, Tumut.) 
Native Pine grows in the hills, and the soil is of a rocky and stony nature. On Poolamacca Pastoral 
Holding, 6 miles south of Torrowangee, they are very scarce, only an odd pine-tree here and there.— 
(W. N. Baker, Acting Forester, Torrowangee.) 
There is a great scarcity of matured pine timber in this district. The whole of the matured trees 
have been felled before the present reserves were proclaimed, and great waste of valuable timber took place, 
the greater portion being allowed to rot on the reserves. The following are the principal pine reserves in 
my district, within the County of Townsend, and are all fairly well-timbered with young pine, in all stages 
of growth. Nos. 1,901, 1,902, and 3,156, situated on Puckawidgee Run ; Nos. 1,879 and 1,880, Steam 
Plains; No. 7, Conargo; No. 1,404, Deniliquin ; and part of No. 1,458, Warwillah Run. All these 
reserves, with the exception of No. 1,458, have under my supervision been thinned, and all scrub and 
undergrowth cut and burnt off by the lessees of the runs. The timber has wonderfully improved since the 
clearing, and will become very valuable in time. The only other pine reserve in my district of importance 
is No. 3,103, situated on Chah Ling River, County of Wakool. This reserve is timbered with good pine, 
most of the trees are now suitable for telegraph posts. Bush fires in this district have tended to destroy 
hundreds of acres of splendid young pine forests, both on freehold and Crown lands; very little fire destroys 
the young timber. There are several other reserves in my district that contain small patches of pine. 
The total area of pine timbers including all the reserves in my district, I would estimate at about 10,000 
acres —(Forester Wilshire, Deniliquin.) 
There are about 20,000 acres of land upon the reserves in my district, well-timbered with pines.— 
(Forester Payten, Corowa.) 
