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Size. —It attains the dignity of a large tree. So far as I know, it attains its 
greatest development in Tasmania. In the first part of the letters of Quaker 
Missionary Backhouse there are some measurements of large stringybark trees 
(Eucalyptus obliquci ) on the Emu River. I content myself with quoting three. 
The first was 45 feet in circumference, and the supposed height 180 feet ; the top 
broken. The second was 55 feet in circumference; supposed to he upwards of 
200 feet high. lie measured, near Hampshire Hills, two trees that had been felled 
for splitting into rails, each 180 feet long. 
Habitat. — It is found in Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, and New 
South Wales. 
Tasmania . 
Common in hilly country all over the island, but chiefly in the south. 
South Australia. 
The late Mr. J. Ednie Brown gives Mount Lofty Ranges, near Adelaide ; 
in places upon the southern slopes of the main range running through Kangaroo 
Island ; along the coast from the Glenelg River to Lake Bonney in places around 
and near Mount Gambier; Mounts Burr and McIntyre Eorest Reserves; Cave 
Range Eorest Reserve ; in places near Narracoorte, on the Kingston and Narracoorte 
railway line; and several other districts of less importance in the south-east. 
Victoria. 
It grows in almost all parts of Victoria, excepting the northern areas, from 
the sea-coast up to about 4,000 feet above the sea. It is specially common in 
Gippsland. 
New South Wales. 
It extends from south to north of the State. Its northernmost limit is a 
matter for further investigation, hut it extends nearly to the Queensland border. It 
is found growing in company with A', goniocalyx and other species on the Irish 
Corner Mountain, Reidsdale, Sugarloaf Mountain, and around Monga, both on the 
eastern and western fall of those mountains. The trees are fairly abundant, and are 
to be found growing to a height of from 100 to 150 feet, with a girth of from 6 to 
10 feet. In New England (Yarrowitch) it is associated with E. viminalis. 
Howitt (Trans. Roy. Soc. Viet., II, Pt. I, 1890, p. 92) makes the statement, 
as regards Gippsland, that “ it appears to he essentially a littoral form, hut ascends 
the mountains, &c.” The first part of this statement does not appear to hold true 
in New South Wales. The tree grows right on the top of the ranges with us, and 
never in the littoral lands, as far as observed. It frequents situations where it can 
he reached and enveloped in the sea-fogs; in this remote sense alone can the word 
“ littoral ” be applied to trees with us. On the Tantawanglo Mountain it grows 
