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wlilch were sent to Mr. AV^ilson, Mr. Lambert, and Sir James 

 Smith, and published by the latter Botanist in " J specimen of 

 the Botany of JVeic Holland,'' the ^^ Exotic Botany Sfc^ in White's 

 * Journal of a Voyage to New South "Wales.' To Mr. "White, 

 then, we are indebted for some of the first specimens of Eucalyptus 

 sent to Europe, and the descriptions of these preceded the advent 

 of the eminent Robert Brown, who in the years 1801, 1802, and 

 1803, accompanied Flinders on the Coasts of Australia, and by 

 his labours, inaugurated a new era in the history of Botanical 

 Science. 



The species of Eucalypts in AYilldenow are divided into two 

 classes, viz., those with a conical, and those with a hemispherical 

 operculum. 



1. E. rohusta, (Smith's Bot. Nov. Holl. 40, t. 13, and in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. 3, 283) is thus briefly described " opercuJo conico medio 

 constricto, icmhellis lateralihus terminalihusque, pedunculis pedicel- 

 Usque compressis.'''' So vague a description might well be applied 

 to several of the Port Jackson Eucalypts, and so amongst others 

 it was given to the common Stringy Bark, Bloodwood &c. Indeed 

 as late as 1861, Baron Mueller declined to describe the species, 

 alleging as a reason, " Icon liujus speciei nullihi ex stat, quare donee 

 specimina autJientica Tierharii Smitliiani cum nostris comparanda 

 sint, nil certi de nomine arbor is Jtinc descriptce offeroT It was 

 not, therefore, until Mr. Bentham in 1866 compared the specimens 

 in Smith's herbarium with those collected by E. Brown and 

 Eraser, and more recently by the writer of this paper, that E. 

 rohusta was found to be the tree known to workmen as " Swamp 

 Mahogany," the original specimens of which were probably col- 

 lected in low and swampy ground near Sydney. Baron Mueller 

 has figured and described this species in the seventh Decade of 

 his Eucalyptograpliia, in which he states that it has been ascer- 

 tained to occur here and there from Twofold Bay to the Eichmond 

 Eiver, " in low, sour, swampy ground near the sea-coast, where- 



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