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the number is not many, I think, and the vast majority of them 

 show what, in my opinion, is E. dives. As a student of Eucalypts 

 for many years, I see difiiculties in their classification now that 

 were formerly hidden from me, therefore this contribution to a 

 better knowledge of an important species is submitted by me 

 with all deference, and in the hope that it may be useful and 

 suggestive to Victorian botanists : — 



loi. Insolvent Track (doubtful). 



102. Heath, Brodman's Creek. 



103. Osier's Creek. 



104. Monkey Creek, Sale and Port Albert road. 



105. M'Alpine's Turn-off, Currajong road. 



106. Boyle's Hill, near Reedy Creek road, South Gippsland. 



107. Stradbrook. 



108. Hill Top, Longford. 



109. 22 miles. Port road. Short's. 



no. '' E. amygdalina, Wild Horse Creek Range; highest 

 point where tree grows." 



122. "Conglomerate Hill, Wild Horse Creek ; leaves of tree 

 slightly shiny, veins obscure." 



111. 116, 119. Great Divide, Wentworth side. The ovate 

 glaucous suckers precisely match those of E. dives from Wingello, 

 New South Wales. Mr. Howitt's Sieberiana (b). 



112. "Broad-leaved Peppermint," Buchan road; sucker 

 leaves nearly orbicular. 



113. Fred Smith. Bridge, Tambo road. 



114. Creswick, pointed buds, in bud only (doubtful).* 



115. Toongabbie cutting, Walhalla road. 



117, 121. Dargo, Dargo High Plains, and Two-mile Creek, 

 Dargo Plains. Sieberiana (b). 



118. Mt. Livingstone, broa.dAea.{ ami/gdalina. 



120. " Mountain Ash," C S. Holmes, Snowy Plains. 

 Sieberiana (b). 



123. Darraman, Port Albert road. 



124. " E. amygdalina." 



125. Plains between Curram's and Four-mile Creek. The 

 fruit with broader rim than usual, and with valves slightly 

 exserted. 



[Assuming that E. Siel>cria>ia (l>) belongs to E. dives, then your determin- 

 ation shows that this species is not only very widespread, but that it also has 

 a number of well-marked varieties. This view would fall in with what I 

 have maintained — namely, that the specific name represents a group of allied 

 forms, the extreme of which again connect with other specific groups. My 

 view has always been that it is the better course to preserve the "group 

 name" and distinguish the varieties rather than to make new species. — 

 A. W. H.] 



♦ Yes, very doubtful, more resembling some of the forms of the mountain 

 amygdalijia. — A. W. H. 



