76 
Creek, Cobargo, and along Tnross River. It is not uncommon to see trees 2 feet in 
diameter; that from which No. 2 specimen was taken measured 20 feet in height 
and 12 inches in diameter.” 
If possible, no tree under a foot in diameter should be stripped; immature 
trees give little bark, which contains comparatively little tannic acid. To strip 
Mountain Hickory saplings is simply killing the goose with the golden eggs. It is 
not surprising that so large a tree yields rather a thick bark. A certain specimen 
is over five-eighths of an inch thick, is ragged, something like an ironbark, only 
more stringy. 
Some of the localities represented in the National Herbarium, Sydney, are as 
follows:— 
Victoria. 
Mount St. Bernard and Mount Hotliam, both in the Victorian Alps. 
New South Wales. 
Southern Localities. —Thredbo Elver and Mount Kosciusko up to 5,500 feet; 
Mount Imlay, Twofold Bay, and Eden to Pambula; Nimitybelle to Tantawanglo 
Mountain ; Barber’s Creek; Hill Top; Menangle. 
Western Localities. —Mount Victoria ; abundant, Mount Victoria to Jenolan 
Caves; Bowenfels Churchyard, a tree 2 feet in diameter; Jenolan Caves ; Sunny 
Corner; Eylstone district and Bylong Creek; sometimes called “ Tanning Gum ” 
in Bathurst district. The phyllodes are looked upon as “ gum leaves.” 
Northern Localities. —Near Copeland. 
“ Hickory it is always called in New England. 
“ I have stripped trees over 2 feet in diameter, and 50 feet of bark, and 
weighing over S cwt. 
“ It also grows on the main Liverpool Range. 
“ The trees from which we get the bark grow mostly on spurs off the main 
range both east and west. I have seen the same kind of bark used in Bathurst, and 
which I was told was got from towards Mudgee. We have been using the bark 
twenty-three years, and like it for dressing leather better than any other. 
“As I told you, the tree blossoms early in November.”—W. J. Smith (The 
Tannery, Tam worth). 
“ The Broad-leaved Hickory grows all over this (Glen Innes) and Tenterfield 
districts, but very scattered with few exceptions, those being principally on Pastoral 
Holdings Rivertree, Koreelali, Oakwood, Morven, and Sandy Hills. Although it is 
stripped when in full blossom, it. retains enough sap in the limbs for the seeds to 
properly ripen” (Forester Powell). Mount Mitchell, 5,000 feet; a New England 
locality marked var. falciformis, by Bentham. Guy Fawkes and Round Mountain. 
