Range - Setis

I. Meteorological.
(a) Frost.
1. Graham Officer (Proc. Roy. Soc., Tas., 1892, p. 155) referring to the Nive
Plains near Lake St. Clair, speaks of them being “covered with dead and fallen trees,
the result of a severe frost 50 or 60 years ago.”
2. “Relative Frost Resistance of Eucalyptus in Southern California,” by E. N.
Munns, Journ. of Forestry, XVI, 412 (April, 1918). In this paper twenty-six species
are dealt with. A few of the vernaculars are open to possible correction, e.g., E.
polyanthema, which is called “Australian Beech,” perhaps a misplaced label, for
such a name is quite unknown in Australia. E. amygdalina is called “Giant
Eucalypt.” Perhaps E. amygdalina var. regnans—E. regnans—is meant. E.
leucoxylon, “White Wood.” This is a mistake, although it is sometimes called
“White Ironbark.” The author of the specific name regnans (p. 422) is Mueller. E.
goniocalyx, “Box-wood.” Box-wood is not an Australian wood, though “Box” is. E.
calophylla, “Feather-veined Gum.” This is evidently a Californian name for the
“W.A. Red Gum,” but it is descriptive of all the Corymbosae.
One of the conclusions in a useful paper is that E. viminalis is the most frost-hardy
species of the genus that has so far been planted in Southern California, followed by
E. polyanthemos, E. Gunnii, E. bicolor, and E. regnans. It is quite evident, however,
that the original seeds were not obtained from the most frost-resistant localities in
all cases.
(b) Snow.
See Dudley Le Souef, “Effect of Snow on Eucalyptus trees,” (Vict. Nat., 18, 108–
110, 1901).
(c) Wind.
Effect of wind. See Fissility (timbers), Part LIV, p. 208.
See my “Forest Flora of New South Wales,” Part LX, for two remarkable
photographs showing:—
(a) “Wind-blown trees, Stanley, North-west Coast, Tasmania. (These illustrate the
dwarfing or nanism caused by strong sea breezes in exposed situations.)
(b) “A Cypress Pine (Callitris robusta. R.Br.) after a Cyclone, Cambo Cambo
Station, Collarenebri district, N.S.W.” This shows the devastation in a forest,
including the cyclonic or twisting force, and the disintegration of the timber into
long splintery masses.
IV. Parasites.
(a) True Parasites (Mistletoes).
I am indebted to Mr. W. F. Blakely, my Botanical Assistant, for the following
lists, and hope the publication of them will lead to much fuller interest being taken