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Habitat. —This tree is chiefly found in South Australia, where it is one of 
the commonest trees, and is usually an indication of good wheat-growing land. 
The Peppermint Gum ( Enc . odorata) has a wide distribution in South Australia, being found as far 
north as the Flinders Ranges, near Quorn and Port Augusta, 180 miles north of Adelaide, as the bird flies, 
and as far south as Bordertown, on the overland line to Melbourne, 160 miles south-east of Adelaide, while 
the distance from west to east over which it occurs, taking Spencer’s Gulf as a starting base, will usually 
not exceed 100 miles in width. 
It also occurs on Eyre’s Peninsula, near Pt. Lincoln, and likewise on Kangaroo Island. 
In some places, notably Mount Remarkable and Adelaide neighbourhoods, it grows into a fine tree, 
but in others merely develops a stunted form which degenerates into mere scrub in many of the Mallee 
districts.—(Extract from letter from W. Gill, Conservator of Forests, Adelaide.—3/3/10.) 
It also occurs in north-western Victoria, but as regards New South Wales its range 
requires to he more clearly defined. It is a “ dry country ” species. It has been 
recorded from Deniliquin, Wyalong, Cobar, Nymagee, and other places. 
The variety named after the Rev. Dr. Woolls has been received from Mount 
Boppy near Oobar, Girilambone to Condobolin, Dubbo to Baradine and the Castle- 
reagh River, Narrabri, Pilliga, and Denman. 
Propagation.— It readily grows from the stools after coppicing, and there¬ 
fore proves profitable for firewood within easy range of a good market. (W. Gill.) 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 152. 
Variety Woollsiana, Maiden. 
b. Sucker leaves from type, Narrabri, New South Wales. 
c. Twig with young buds and small fruits, from type. 
d. Anther. 
Typical Form. 
a. Sucker leaf from Wirrabara, near Mount Remarkable, South Australia. 
e. Flowering twig from Cobar, New South Wales. 
f. Fruits from St. Vincent’s Gulf, South Australia (W. Gill). 
G. Anther. 
h. Buds from type, “Sud Australie, 1848.” 
k. Juvenile leaf from type. 
L. Juvenile leaf from the National Park, near Adelaide (W. Gill), nearly orbicular in outline. 
The juvenile leaves are usually narrow, and a specimen like this shows that the juvenile 
leaf varies like other characters in Eucalyptus. 
m. Mature leaf. 
Note.— The mature leaf of (a) normal form, cannot be separated from that of (c) type of variety 
Woollsiana. 
„ PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
“Black Mallee” ( Eucalyptus odorata). Nackara Creek, Hundred of Coglin, South Australia. 
(W. Gill, photo.) 
Eucalyptus odorata growing on Mount Brown Forest Reserve, about 9 miles south of Quorn, 
South Australia.—(W. Gill, photo.) 
Saplings of Eucalyptus odorata, var. Woollsiana, at Gilgandra, New South Wales.—(R. H. 
Cambage, photo.) 
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