THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 99 
of the Tableland, nor in the sandstone country H. corymbosa, 
except about Hilltop, where it is plentiful. 
I have experimented with the ironbarks, planting six of each 
E. leucoxylon, from seed obtained in Bendigo, Victoria, and HE. 
sideroxylon from seed obtained at Fairfield, the result was that 
in one year’s growth EH. leucoxylon reached a height of 5 feet 
6 inches and sideroxylon only one foot, thus showing that the 
coastal ironbark did not like the cold or the soil. The F. 
leucoxylon is now a fine tree, having flowered last winter, and 
the sideroxylon (three years old) a bush only three feet in 
height, an economic lesson in my opinion worthy of record. 
KUCALYPTS FLOWERING IN AUGUST AT 
. COPMANHURST. 
BE. maculata, bancrofti, baileyana, microcorys, crebra, pani- 
ewata, eugeniodes, tereticornis. 
IN SYDNEY DISTRICT. 
Robusta. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
VeRNACULAR NAmes. - From an esteemed member of our 
Society, Mrs. Edith M. Jones, of Harris Park, we have a re- 
quest for the use in as far as possible of vernacular names in 
addition to the scientific. We would commend this request to 
our members. The charming paper in this issue, “From a Bush 
Note Book,” by Miss F. M. Irby, is a most excellent exainple. 
Where there are well established vernacular names in the case 
of plants and insects, the same plan might be followed more 
fully than has been the case in the past. 
Kpiror, A.V. 
Carper Snake. In reference to Mr. Stinson’s note, Aust. 
Nat., V. 81. About thirty or more years ago a carpet snake 
was caught and killed in a fowl house in Cairns by Mr. Robt. 
Johnstone, head of the native police. He skinned and stuffed 
it, and sent it to the Brisbane Museum, where I saw it about 
ten years ago. The snake measured 22 feet. 
Epiru M. JONES. 
