THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 97 
SOME HUCALYPTUS ABOUT MITTAGONG. 
By D. W. C. Suiress. 
(“Weeroona.”) 
To the student of the eucalypts a visit to the Mittagong, 
Bowral, Berrima district will prove of absorbing interest, and 
be a weleome change from the coastal types peculiar to the 
sandstone country, and I may say to the influences of the sea 
Alraae 
I purpose enumerating the species to be met with, and as 
most of them are to be found on the roadside, shall take you 
first of all for a walk from the Mittagong Station along the 
Berrima Road, where Sieber and others of the early botanists 
collected as far back as the 1820s. 
As you approach the Chalybeate Spring you first meet with 
BE. radiata—(a form of EF. amygdalena)—to the right, and on 
the banks of a creek is a clump of EH. ovata—about the spring, 
i. dives, the typical form and also a narrow-leaved one—to the 
right again is EZ. maculosa, rubida, haemastoma, dives, and, again, 
on the left on the banks of a creek—the headwaters of the 
Nattai River, 2. ovata, viminalis at the bridge—with radiata, 
then you meet punctata for the first time, then eugeniodes, hae- 
mastoma and am/flifolius, the cabbage-leaved gum, and down the 
hill to the turn off to Mt. Jellore, H. dives, maculosa, rubida, 
numerosa, and enter a glade of E. maculosa, piperita, rubida, 
viminalis, one of the most delightful spots on a hot summer’s 
day. Faithfull’s Paddock forms the western boundary of the 
road here, and, if before entering this pleasant glade you leave 
the road to the right and go along’ the boundary fence, you 
will find a cattle shelter formed of H. radiata, and, further, if 
you happen to be one of the many who ean see nothing: beauti- 
ful in our native trees, and can come away from that shelter 
without saying, “God alone can make a tree,” I will give you 
up. By keeping on along the fence you will meet E. coriucea, 
two forms, one typical, the other smaller fruited, and with a box 
like bark,:#. coriacea, is a scribbly gum like Z. haemastoma, 
further along is a single tree of FH. vitrea, which has small irre- 
gular shaped fruits and narrow leaves and a box bark. Return- 
ing to the road again and passing the old Joadja-Wombeyan 
Caves Road, you pass through what was once the Sandy Flat 
racecourse, now a forest of piperita, with a sprinkling of radiata, 
maculosa, viminalis, eugeniodes, along the road, BE. ovata, on the 
