504 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, II., 



show. I believe that, by testing, at the same season, the trees 

 wl)ich morphologically show a complete transition between the 

 two species, the oils would show a transition equally complete. 



Holding the views that I do as to the identity of E. saligna 

 and E. boiryoides, I am obliged to combine them. I therefore 

 propose to reduce E. hotryoides to a variety of E. saligna. Both 

 species were described by Smith in the same paper*, but, follow- 

 ing the precedent that has been adopted by a number of botanists, 



E. saligna (p. 285; E. hotryoides is p. 286) is the earlier name 

 because it was described earlier in the paper. 



New South Wales is the home of the types, both of E. saligna 

 and E. hotryoides. It will be convenient, as will be seen presently, 

 to deal with E. saligna-hotryoides in this order: — Queensland, 

 New South Wales, Victoria. 



dueensland.— Following are notes showing the additions Mr. 



F. M. Bailey has made in his ' Queensland Flora ' to Bentham's 

 * Flora Australiensis.' 



E. hotryoides Sm. "A tall, handsome tree, with a rough, furrowed 

 persistent bark towards the base, white and smooth on the U2?per 

 jDart of trunk and branches." Mr. Bailey only adds the words 

 in my italics, which are a description of the bark of typical 

 saligna. 



He adds: " Brisbane; various southern localities, in mountain 

 gullies and river flats (probably the largest tree of the Queens- 

 land species). Wood of a red colour, close in grain, hard, tough 

 and durable; useful in large buildings, wheelwrights' work, and 

 in all work where large beams of hardwood are required." This 

 is an accurate description of E. saligna. 



The only alleged Queensland locality given in the ' Flora 

 Australiensis' ("Brisbane, Blue Gum, McArthur, No. 91, of 

 Paris Exhibition Woods ") is founded on an error, as will be 

 explained later. 



Coming to E. saligna Sm., Bentham in the 'Flora Austra 

 liensis^ omits Queensland, but Bailey adds, "Forests in southern 



* Trans. Linn. Soc. iii., 1797. 



