14 THE AUSYRALIAN NATURALIST. 
times these patches are mere marshes, but are more often. 
covered with thickets.of EL. haemastoma rarely more than 10 feet 
in height and grouped together mallee fashion, adapting them- 
selves to altered conditions and maybe forming a stable variety 
of this species. EF. haemastoma var micrantha, although in some 
parts quite as plentiful as “haemastoma” itself, I have never 
found in the stunted form or growing in clumps. 
As with the Scribbly Gum so with EH. eugeniodes which is 
to be found growing everywhere it can obtain a footing, one 
of the progressive species that give one some idea of the diffi- 
culties with which the author of “The Critical Revision” has, 
had to contend, for it is to be found in thickets very mallee-like 
in appearance and up to 7 feet in height. You find it on one 
side of a track with narrow leaves, and small narrow suckers— 
on the other side, typical—and then to your confusion you dis- 
cover that some of the trees have “sessile” fruits. Yet who is. 
to say they are not all eugeniodes breaking up into groups and. 
forming types to overcome their environment. Unlike Z. 
corymbosa, punctata, umbra and other trees to be found in the: 
district—eugeniodes does not flower simultaneously—for you 
rarely find more than a couple of trees in flower at the same 
time. 
E. corymbosa is to be seen on the heights above Flat Rock, 
Middle Harbour, in conjunction with Angophora bakeri with 
very narrow leaves and small elongated fruits, while just off the 
Spit-Pittwater Road near the 9 mile post is growing in conjunc-. 
tion with a patch of EZ. virgata—about 4 feet in height, and 
when I last saw the patch it was covered with full sized fruits, 
and showing to my mind that it has overcome its difficulties, 
and is able to reproduce itself. This form can be frequently 
met with right to the Hawkesbury. 
With regard to the narrow leaved variety found with 
Angophora bakeri and hardly distinguisable from it from a dis- 
tance, can this be the result of association? As a matter of 
fact in such a species as this so frequently met with, one must 
expect a series of variations, and I ask the question for the 
reason that I have noticed waratahs growing with banksias and 
the similarity in the leaves was so marked that I had to satisfy 
myself that the plants were really waratahs and not banksias. 
E. punctata is to be seen in three distinct forms—on the 
wind swept heights of French’s Forest, more to the Manly side, 
may be seen a broad leaved stunted form, with very large fruits: 
and large suckers and leaves, its depauperate appearance being 
doubtless due to the strong sea winds which sweep the heights... 
