TIE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. isl 
seenty dews upon the road-sides; the stately “Tronbarks” and 
stunted “Boxes,” the “Whitewoods” (Atalaya) and “Rosewoods” 
(Heterodendron), each contributes not a little to the changing 
hues of green; the. “Buddha” and “Emu” bushes (Hremophila) 
are there and the Wattles, of which the “Sally,” (A. salicina) 
yises erect in contempt to its stunted self “out back.” and dis- 
counts its golden blooms there for its silvern here as a margin 
{or its greater demands for supplies. The “Leopard Wood” 
tree, which unlike its namesake does change its spots, and the 
“Beef Wood” vainly offer their valued timber to industry; the i) 
“Wilga,” because of its protection from the burning sun, has the 
distinction of being the tree best known to the sundowner; the 
“Quinine Bush” (Alstonia constricta), not an unworthy represen- 
tative of its foreign and commercial vernacular, graces the banks 
of creeks in. deep contrast to the glaucous xerophytes, and the 
“Oyvanges and Lemons” (Capparis and Canthium), wild though 
they be, closely associate as if in child-like sport. While as if 
to check the jubilation of it all, the moaning “Oaks” and weep- 
ing “Myalls” dirge the desolation of the recurrent condition of 
drought. Again, by way of the Warrumbungles the passes are 
camouflaged as inland coast country with types of sandstone | 
flora; there the “Bullrushes” and “Flannel Flowers,” the “Maiden 
Hairs” and ferns evidence that Nature has gone topsy-turvy with 
apparent contradictions.. Much of the black-soil in which is a 
sprinkling of sandstone, which in wet weather makes this district 
notorious, has been washed down from the Warrumbungles and 
the basin of the traditional inland sea filled up.to plain level 
with its crumbles. 
Such is the general scope of life, animate and inanimate, on 
the Castlereagh. one of the most responsive areas in the State. 
REVIEW. 
We have received from the New South Wales Forestry Com- 
mission, Vol. 1, of “An BHlementary Text Book of Australian 
forest Botany,” by C. T. White, F.L.S., Government Botanist of 
Queensland, and have to congratulate the author on the excellence 
of his work, as well as the Forestry Commissioners for supplying 
a standard work, which will not only prove of immense value to 
the rangers, but to the man on the land. . 
The book deals with morphology, anatomy and physiology, _ 
and should be in the hands of all botanical students, as it willbe 
found extremely helpful for field work, and we hope that the 
author may be encouraged to further efforts, as the need for 
standard works on Australian botany, by Australian botanists is 
very pressing.—D.W.C.S. 
