490 EXJCALYPTS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, 



cliaracter of the wood prevent us from concluding that such 

 deviations are anything more than varieties of the same species. 

 With regard to size especially/this seems to be true, for, in damp 

 sandy places near the coast, the fruit of the latter is sometimes 

 three or four times as large as it is inland to the Blue Mountains. 



1. E. capitella, (so called from the capitate flower buds of the 

 umbels) is the common form of Stringy Bark near the sea-coast, 

 and then, after passing over the county of Cumberland, it is found 

 again on the Blue Mountains, where it is distinguished from the 

 other form by the name of '^ Broad-leaved or Silvery Stringy 

 Bark." As found near Sydney, it is only a tree of moderate size, 

 but, according to Baron Mueller, it attains a height of 200 feet in 

 favourable localities to the South. The young seedlings of this 

 species, as well as those of E. eugenioides, and JE. macrorrhynclia, 

 are beset with minute tufts of hair, the leaves appear nearly 

 opposite, and the fruit is hemispherical. This tree was one of 

 the first Eucalypts made known to European Botanists, for it is 

 figured in White's Voyages to New South Wales, and is described 

 in Willdenow's '' Species Plantarum,^^ in which it is said to be 

 distinguished from other species by its capitate flowers. The 

 operculum is generally figured as hemispherical, but the form, 

 especially near Sydney, varies to conical. With regard to the 

 wood, different opinions are entained, for, whilst Sir W. Macarthur 

 ( Catologue of the Natural and Industrial Products of New South 

 Wales, 1867), says that the coast species is preferable to that of 

 Camden, workmen generally speak more favourably of the kind 

 which occurs as a forest tree between the coast and the mountains. 

 Sir William gives 120 feet as the greatest height of E. capitella, 

 and he memtions as a curious fact that the Blacks had different 

 names for the coast and inland trees. 



2. E. eugenioides, is the name now appropriated to the common 

 Stringy Bark from Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains. As Mr. 

 Bentham placed this species with E. piperita, there was some 

 difficulty in identifying it, but recent investigation has shown that 



