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tree 295 feet high,- though only 13 feet in diameter. The largest 

 monarch of the forest, named the St. Eollox from the famous 

 Glasgow Chemical ^Vorks stalk, is some 350 feet high. Its neigh- 

 bours average 300 feet. Though redwood is the predominant tree 

 in the lands, Lig pines, firs, and congeners also quickly grow up in 

 the interspaces. 



The Whittixghame Eucalypt. — The article on " Notable Trees 

 at AVhittinghame, East Lothian," appearing in our September issue 

 (p. 285), has interested botanical authorities. Specimens of leaves, 

 etc., of the " Swamp Gum tree," there attaining a height of sixty 

 feet, have been sent, as requested, to the Kew Herbarium ; and the 

 specific name of the tree has been pronounced to be E. G-unnii, not 

 viminalis, as it was designated by our contributor on the authority 

 of the late G. Bentham. 



The Islaxd of Arran Eucalypts. — The annual report of the 

 continuous growth of such exotics as eucalypts, tree-ferns, and 

 acacias in this well-known health resort of the Firth of Clyde given 

 by the Kev. D. Landsborough, of Kilmarnock, to the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society, has come to be looked for with interest by 

 arboriculturists. This year three Australian gums have been 

 succes:^fully introduced, which from their native mountain habitats 

 appear to promise a long vitality even in the severer frosts and gales 

 incident to other parts of Great Britain than the lovely isle where 

 they now luxuriate. The white gum {E. imucifiora syncoriacca) from 

 the Blue Mountains, I^qw South Wales, planted in 1880 at Craig- 

 yard, Laralash, had not a leaf browned in the severe winter of 

 1880-81, and is now 18-|- feet in height, and 7|- inches in girth. 

 Its leaves, which approach in size those of the blue gum, are covered 

 with a whitish bloom. The leaf of the Alpine gum is large, thick, 

 and remarkably broad, being 9 inches by -1^ inches. It was 

 planted last year at Corrie Hotel within 35 yards of high-water 

 mark, and is now 3^ feet in height. It is a native of the Alpine 

 regions of Australia, and, like some Alpine plants, grows well in the 

 vicinity of the sea. The cider gum or mountain white gum 

 {E. Gunnii) has tv/o representatives in Arran ; one 6 feet 5 inches 

 high at Craigyard, Lamlash, and a smaller 'specimen at the Free 

 Church Manse, Whiting Bay. It grows freely in the open air at 

 Kew. 



