BY HENRY DEANE AND .J. H. MAIDEN. 449 



arrival of the 3rd volume of the Flora Australiensis in the 

 Colony : — 



"E. diversifoUa. — I have ventured to separate the 'Camden 

 Woolly-butt ' from the ' Manna Gum' (E. viminalis), with which 

 it has been associated, because the trees differ so much from each 

 other in bark, habit, &c. The Camden Woolly-butt resembles in 

 some respects the Woolly-butt of other districts, having the lower 

 part of the tree covered with fibrous bark and the upper branches 

 smooth. The inflorescence, however, and the leaves are very 

 differeat, being sometimes narrow-lanceolate and alternate, and 

 sometimes cordate or ovate-acuminate, sessile and opposite. The 

 buds and seed-vessels are small, generally eight in each axillary 

 or lateral umbel. This species is common in the neighbourhood 

 of Berrima, and attains the height of 80 feet, but beautiful as 

 the form of the tx'ee is, the wood is said to be indifferent." — 

 Woolls' Contribution to the Flora of Australia, p. 235 (1867). 



And again : — "jE*. diversifoUa, which, in the Flora, is regarded 

 as one of the forms of E. vimhialis, is certainly a distinct species, 

 and called ' Camden Woolly Butt.' The lower part of the tree 

 is fibrous, and the leaves dilfer from narrow lanceolate and 

 alternate to cordate, sessile and opposite."— Woolls' Lectures on 

 the Vegetable Kingdom, p. 120 (1879). 



It will thus be seen that Woolls did not agree with Bentham 

 in placing the " Camden Woolly-butt " under E. viminalis, and 

 he himself placed it under E. diversifoUa. Woolls did this pro- 

 bably because he thought that the reference in B.Fl. iii. 240 to 

 E. diversifoUa was intended for the " Camden Woolly-butt," but 

 it is not Bonpland's species, Mueller ( Eucalyptographia^ under 

 E. viminalis), having shown that the plate in PI. de Malmaison, 

 35, t. 13, represents a young state of E. santalifolia. 



In 1885 Dr. Woolls (Plants of Nerv South Wales, p. 55), 

 departed from the opinion he had so long held as to the claim of 

 the " Camden Woolly-butt " to be a distinct species, and looked 

 upon it as a form of E. Stuartiana, a statement which could only 

 have been made without due consideration. 



