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Size. —As a rule a small tree, with a dense, shapely head. At Boro, near 
Braidwood, it is a tree with a stem diameter of a foot, and a height of 30 feet, which 
is as large as I have any record of in New South Wales. It is sometimes a mere 
shrub. 
Habitat.— The following localities are given in the Flora Australiensis :— 
New South Wales .—Port Jackson (R. Brown, Sieber. n. 8, and others); Berrima and Mudgee 
(Woolls). 
Victoria .—Port Phillip (R. Brown); Wangaratta and Dandenong (F. Mueller); Melbourne 
(Adamson); Glenelg River (Robertson). 
Tasmania .—Port Dalrymple, Derwent River, and King’s Island (R. Brown). Abundant 
throughout the Island, ascending to over 3,000 feet (J. D. Hooker). 
South Australia. —Port Lincoln (R. Brown) ; Boston Point (Wilhelmi); near Adelaide 
(Whittaker, Blandowski); Mount Barker and Cook’s Creek (Neumann); Kangaroo Island 
(Waterhouse). 
As regards New South Wales, it is pretty widely diffused, as the following 
localities in the National Herbarium, Sydney, indicate. Speaking generally, it is 
found on the cold western and southern table-lands :— 
Port Jackson and neighbourhood, e.g., Iiose Bay, Maroubra Bay, and the 
National Park. 
In the south we have it from Deniliquin; only a few on the sandhills of the 
Murray River (0. Wilshire, District Forester); Adaminaby to Cooma (E. Betclie) ; 
tree of 15 feet, with a flowering spike as narrow as F. paludosa ; Wyangle, Tumut 
(R. H. Oamhage); Barber’s Creek (H. J. Rurnsey) : Berrima (J.H.M.). 
Going west we have it from the highest parts of the Blue Mountains, e.g., 
Blackheath; shrubs of 3-4 feet (J.H.M.) ; Mt. Victoria (J.H.M.) ; Clarence Siding 
(J. L. Boorman) ; Mt. Wilson (J.H.M.) ; Jenolan Caves (J.H.M.); thence west to 
the Bathurst district (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.). 
It occurs also at Byron Bay (J. L. Boorman). This is on the coast, and 
approaching the Queensland border, in which State further search will probably 
find it. 
Propagation. —It is a beautiful tree, very symmetrical, and in cold localities 
with fair soil it is sufficiently large to afford good shelter to cattle and horses. It 
is so common on many places as to be despised, but I would suggest to landowners 
to take care to preserve picked specimens. New South Wales has many beautiful 
trees—I suppose as beautiful as in any part of the world—but if they be native they 
are rarely the objects of solicitude. 
Beautiful New South Wales would be even more beautiful if our people 
would but have more thought for the native trees. It would not cost much, as a 
very general rule—a little protection here, the pruning of a branch there, some little 
act performed at odd moments which might, in most cases, be looked upon as 
recreation. 
