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The foliage has a strong peppermint odour. Tlie twigs are 

 round. 



Buch. — From two or three to six in an umbel, but clusters of 

 four or five are commonest. On a flattened stalk of about a 

 quarter of an inch; the stalklets less flattened and less than half 

 the length of the stalks. The buds glaucous and often pink or 

 purplish, ovoid, the top of the operculum somewhat pointed. The 

 operculum usually about the same size as the calyx-tube. 



Flowers. — The flowers are usually borne in great profusion, 

 with bright yellow filaments. Stamens apparently all fertile and 

 inflected in the bud, anthers with parallel, distinct cells; style 

 of moderate length, the stigma nearly flat-topped and dilated a 

 little, the appearance of the dilatation being increased by the 

 constriction caused by the drying of the filament. 



Frtdts. — Variable somewhat in size, but always under a quarter 

 of an inch in diameter; visually glaucous, but sometimes entirely 

 glabrous. In shape nearly hemispherical, with a well-defined, 

 more or less domed rim; the valves, which are indiff'erently three 

 or four in number, exserted, and sometimes well exserted. 



Size. — ^"A healthy mature tree seldom exceeds 6 feet in girth, 

 after which it becomes a shell of much larger proportions and 

 groW'S to a height of some 50 feet and more " (J.F.C.). 



Raitge. — " Grows on alluvial flats, preferring the clay soil 

 derived from the Silurian slate to that of the heavier basalt on 

 the lighter granite" (J. F. Campbell). It is common over the 

 greater portion of New England. It occurs on the summit of 

 Ben Lomond. It appears to occur in Victoria, specimens from 

 that colony possessing remarkable similarity to ours; the matter 

 might perhaps engage the attention of our Victorian co-worker. 

 We have shown elsewhere that the New England and Victorian 

 forms of other species {e.g., E. amygdalina, E. ohliqua) are very 

 similar, and in a number of cases New England plants have not 

 been recorded for hundreds of miles until southern New South 

 AVales or Victoria is reached. 



The aftinity of E. nova-anglica is undoubtedly closest to E. 



Stuartiana. Where the two species occur together the former 

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