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Habitat .—It is widely diffused in the colder and moister parts of the State, 
loving good soil or the vicinity of watercourses in the most elevated situations, or 
depressions in shallow, rounded, grassy valleys. It would appear to attain its greatest 
luxuriance in the Snowy lliver district, and it also occurs in Victoria. Prom the 
southern mountain ranges it skirts round to the west, and then to New England, 
rarely coming below 3,000 feet. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 54. 
a. Juvenile foliage, Jindabyne, Monaro. 
B. Twig in bud and fruit, from the Kiandra district, 
c. Fruits from Wingello. 
D. Twig of variety angustifolia, in flower, from Mount Victoria. 
E. Form with capsules in dense globular umbels from Blackheath. 
