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number of species, by a tyro iu botany, in the face of the 

 fact that type-specimens liad been submitted to the late 

 Baron von Mueller and bad been referred by him to forms of 

 already well-known species, confounds one by its audacity. 

 The only excuse, which we can offer to Australian botanists 

 for such an occurrence in California is, that it shows Mr. 

 Kinney to be unacquainted with either the science of botany 

 or its etiquette. No trained botanist, even after years of ex- 

 perience, would attempt to monograph a genus with such 

 slender material as Mr. Kinney has used, and the absurdity 

 of the thing is made plainer by the fact, that the genus in 

 question is conceded, by all botanists, to be the most difficult 

 in the whole of the vast Australasian Flora. No botanist 

 would have named a tree from Australia as " Eucalyptus 

 Californica,'' nor have given us a name with such an uugram- 

 matical ending as '' Encalyptus McCkdchie.'" No botanist 

 would have the conceit to set up his own opinion, derived 

 from books and comparatively few specimens, tliese under 

 cultivation (perhaps representing only extreme forms of a 

 variable species), in a foreign country, against that of trained 

 observers, living for years among the native haunts of those 

 same plants, and familiar witli the varying aspects of the 

 same species under varying conditions of soil and climate, and 

 familiar also with the intergrading forms of variable species. 



Mr. Kinney's new species are, here, referred to the species, 

 to which they seem to belong. They are based mainly on 

 differences in yield of oil. 



Eiicalyplus Califoruica, Kinney, Eucalyptus, p. 191, =; a 

 form of E. occidentalis. " It was the oil that caused me to 

 set up as a species Eucalyptus Californica for what was 

 before deemed a form of E. occidetitalis.''' Ibid. p. 279. 

 " What I have called E. Californica is by Von Mueller called 

 occidentalis.'" Ibid. p. 177. 



Eucalyptus Mortoniana, Kinney, op. cit. 193,= a form of 

 E. Globidus. " Of the three species named by me the Baron 

 thought one might be a form of E. globidus, and another he 

 called E. occidentalis. A reference to the chapter on Euca- 

 lyptus oil will show. that it would be justifiable to found new 



