10 March, 1916.] 



Bee-heeping in Victoria. 



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fruits usually small, globular, egg-shaped, three- or, much ofteuer, four- 

 celled ; fruits occasionally larger and less roundish than those shown in 

 the illustration. (Fig. 41.) 



This tree is closely allied to the Blackbutt {E . piluJaris), the White 

 Stringybark (E . eiir/enioidfs), and to the Messmate {E . ohJiqiia), as well 



Fig. 40.^The Butt Butt ( Kncdliiptus Bri(l<irsi<nt(i. K. T. Hakor.) 

 IKriiiH U. T. ISiikcr anil If. (J. Smith, " Resi-ari-|i on tli<- Kiic ilyptus. *i-."l 



a-5 the Brown Messmate (J'J. haotiasfonia) ; and \\w>H' different species 

 are sonu'times not readily distinguished from one another. The Pepper- 

 mint Gum differs from t'lie Blackbutt (A', pihiltnis) chiefly in its rough 

 bark extending to the branches (which in the liiat-kbutt are smooth), in 

 iiioi-c slender and less anguiai- itranchlets, and smaller flowers. 



