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leaves; they are broadly ovate and acute, otherwise simi- 

 lar to the type. 



A form growing on the Western Tiers, opposite Mole 

 Creek, has the juvenile leaves and fruit of the type, only 

 the leaves are about two inches along, lanceolate, acute, 

 oft^^n falcate. 



Another specimen from the same locality has narrow 

 leaves, and the operculum almost as large as in White 

 Gum, for which it would readily pass, only that the cap- 

 sules are cylindric, with sunk valves. 



A form growing at Uxbridge attains very lofty 

 stature. It differs from the type only in the capsules 

 being rather larger and often angled. It is locally known 

 aa Yellow Gum, and is a link with Mueller's Gum of Mt. 

 Wellington. 



Some trees growing in England have assumed a form 

 between Cider and Urn Gum. 



Perrins Gum (Eu.c. perrlninna, F.v.M.). — This departs 

 little from Cider. The juvenile leaves are orbicular, and 

 join broadly across the stem, they are pale glaucous ; this 

 condition is generally maintained for some time, when the 

 tree gradually assumes the foliage of Cider. The flowers 

 are smaller and shorter stalked than in that s|)ecies, the 

 fruit hemispheric and nearly sessile. 



Perrin's Gum is rare ; hitherto only recorded from. 

 Ouse district in Tasmania, and Mt. Kosciusko in ]New 

 South Wales. 



Mueller >< Gum {Euc. muelleri, T . B. Moore). — This is 

 an extreme variety of Cider Gum, found on the edge of 

 its southern and western distribution. Its only distinc- 

 tion is the fi'uit being large, up to one centimetre diame- 

 ter, strongly obconic or turbinate, the mouth being very 

 broad, apex flat, and the valves in the dry fruit sharply 

 protruding. 



On some of the mountains of the west there are 

 small trees, which are intermediate in character between 

 this and Dwarf Gum. 



Settlers on Mt. Wellington often call this Fed Gum. 

 People at Bellerive call Ovate Gum by the same name. 

 As each State has from one to many Red Gum a not at all 

 related to these, it appearsi well to reject the appellation. 



Dirnrf Gum {Eur. vernicosa, HooJcer). — In the typical 

 form this is a small shrub, with small, oblong, varnished, 

 thick leaves, seldom exceeding two centimetres in length, 

 opposite or alternate. The flowers are close in the leaf- 



