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No. 120. Part XXXTII. 
Eucalyptus piperita, Sm. 
THE SYDNEY PEPPERMINT, 
(Eamily Myrtacear) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
Eucalytus piperita. Lindfield, near Sydney (Photo, R. H. Cainbage). 
Eor a fuller botanical account of this species, see my Crit. Rev. Genus 
Eucalyptus, Part X. 
No. 155. Part XLIH. 
Grevillea Hilliana, F.v.M. 
WHITE Y1EL YIEL. 
(Family Proteacear) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
Tree in the Government Domain, Sydney, near the old Technological Museum. It is being tested 
as an avenue tree for the Sydney district. 
Spikes of flowers cream-coloured. 
No. 175. Part XLVIII. 
Hakea dactyloides, Cav. 
A HAKEA. 
(Eamily Proteacear) 
Habitat. —Mallacoota Inlet (C. C. Lacaita) is a Victorian locality for this 
species, recorded by Professor Ewart in Eroc. Roy. ISoc. Viet, xxii, 16 (1909). 
No. 182. Part XLIX . 
Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Sm, 
THE CHRISTMAS TREE OR BUSH. 
(Family Cunoniacear) 
Habitat. —Series of trees on the top cliff path between Echo Point, 
Katoomba, and the Meeting of the Waters, Leura,—about half way (T. D. Mutch). 
Appendix (B) Part XXXVIII. 
With reference to the Aboriginal method of producing lire (vol. 4, p. 135 of 
the present work), the following very early account of the method practised in 
using stems of Xanthorrhcea in Western Australia will be found interesting. 
“ Method of getting fire from Blackboys ” (Grass trees of the other States), 
J. Drummond in Hooker’s Journ. of Rot. ii, 345 (1810). 
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