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best? Certainly not the average bushman. It is often, I know, too short to run into rails. I have seen 
trees that you could not run into 7-foot posts even if struck 6 inches thick. I split a tree of this species 
85 feet in length of barrel by 2 feet in diameter ; it flowered here last season in January, the trees being 
great masses of bloom, very noticeable, although distant on the ranges from 1 to 2 miles. It is known 
here as Woolly-butt, Woolly-bark, or White Stringybark.—(A. R. Crawford, Moona Plains, Walcha, July, 
1898.) 
I have a specimen collected by Leichhardt, in 1843, at the head of the 
Gwvdir. It is in leaf only, hut there is no doubt as to its identity. 
Mr. W. Baeuerlen has collected it at Mount Mackenzie, near Tenterfleld. 
This is near the Queensland border, and it may he expected to he found about 
Stanthorpe, in the latter State. 
Woollooma Mountain, parish of Chalmers, county of Durham, land district 
of Scone.—(H. L. White.) 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 83. 
A. Leaf in the intermediate stage, i.e., not the youngest form, but yet not fully mature. Note 
its great width, and its obliquity. 
b. Twig showing buds and flowers. 
c. Fruits. 
[All drawn from New South Wales specimens,—near Yarrowitch, New England.] 
Two photographs, one of the E. obliqua forest in the Myrtle Scrub, near Yarrowitch, described 
on the preceding page, and the other of a large Messmate tree on the Monaro, N.S.W. The latter 
photograph shows the method, common enough in the United States and Australia, in dealing with big 
trees, of erecting a staging above the lower, more conical portion of the trunk, so as to fell where the 
trunk begins to be of even girth. 
