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lower half, so as to form a short tube (as in 152). The lip is pure white, slightly 3-lobed, a little toothed at the edge, 
very uoucave, slightly hairy on the upper side, with a narrow, blunt, channelled appendage, lying along the middle, and 
not advancing more to the front than the separation of the 
obscure, round, lateral lobes of the Up. This column is, as usual 
in the genus, shaggy in front. 
The species approaches Lyca&te plana more nearly than any 
other, but differs not only in its much smaller size and more 
delicate habit, but in the middle lobe of the lip being concave, 
and slightly toothed, not convex, serrated, and plaited ; the 
appendage, too, is linear, not 3-toothed ; and the lip itself 
slightly, not deeply 3-lobed. It belongs to that part of the 
genus which is formed by Z. Skinneri^ plana, and their allies. 
29S. Eucalyptus globulus, Labillardiere^ A 
rast tree, from Van Diemen's Land, known under the 
Belongs 
name of tlie ^^Blue Gum/^ Flowers white. 
to MjTtleblooms {Mp'tace(d). (Fig. 153.) 
Two huge blocks of the timber of this tree having been 
sent from Van Diemen's Land by Sir William Denison, for 
exhibition in the *' Crystal Palace," our readers will be glad 
to know something of its history. Garden catalogues say that 
it was introduced in 1810, and it is by no means rare among 
curious collections; but the rapidity of its growth soon renders it necessary to remove it. There is, 
however, no reason why it should not thrive out of doors in the south west of England and Ireland, 
where the climate is as mild as in Van Diemen's Land. It has angular branches which, when young, 
droop, and are of a pale dull green colour. The leaves are firm, opaque, and unyielding, as if 
stamped out of horn, ovate-lanceolate, long-stalked, and curved in the form. of a sickle; sometimes they 
are wider at the base on one side than on the other, and, by a twist of the stalk, always stand with 
their edges vertically instead of horizontally. The white flowers are almost two inches across when 
the stamens are expanded ; and are produced singly or in clusters of threes ; sometimes, as in our figure, 
when the leaves fall ofiP, the fruits seem as if in spikes. The calyx is singularly knobby and inigged, 
with an angular tube, and a cover shaped like a depressed cone, or like a convexity with a rude boss in the centre. These 
flowers are covered before expansion with a thick glaucous bloom. The fruits are hard, woody, angular, rugged, knobby, 
urnshaped bodies, with five openings into the cavities of the capsule. 
The eaily discoverers of this tree reported it to attain the height of 150 feet ; but they were far within the truth, as 
is shown by the blocks in the Great Exhibition, one of which near the base is 5 feet 7 inches in diameter ; and another, 
cut from \U feet above the first, is still 2 feet 10 inches in diameter. We learn from the proceedings of the Royal 
Society of Van Diemen's Land (vol i., p. 157) that, on the Uth of October, 18-48 :— 
*' A paper was read by Mr. H. Hull descriptive of a gigantic ti'ee of the Gum tribe, < occurring In a gorge on the 
declivity of the Mount Wellington range near Tolosa, about six miles from Hobart Town." Mr, Hull describes it as a 
Blue Gum {Eucalyptus glohulas), and says ' it stands close to the side of one of the small riinilets that issue from the 
mountain, and is surrounded with dense forest and underwood. • • # It was measured with a tape, and found to 
be twenty-eight yards in circumference at the ground (more than nine yards in diameter), and twenty-six yards in 
circumference at the height of six feet. The tree appeared sound except at one part, where the bark had opened, and 
showed a line of decayed wood. The full height of the tree is estimated to be 330 feet.* " 
It is not improbable that the following extract from the same work (p. 165) relates to the same species, although it is 
spoken of by another name : — 
"Mr Miliigan read the following note from the Rev. T.J. Ewing, of New Town, on the occiurrence of some 
unprecedentedly large specimens of the Swamp Gam (Eucalyptus Sp,) :— 
^^ "« New Town Parso.n'age, \9th March, 1849. 
inn if * ''u'^'l '~~^ ^^""^ *^'^ ^'^^^ ^"^ ^^^ ^ ^^""^^ ^^""^^ *^^^' ^^ ^'^^^^^^ ^^^o ^^ry l^« ones, that I had heard of since 
1041, but which were not rediscovered mitil Monday last As they are two of the largest-if not the largest-trees ever 
ZhZZ' rr i^*^™^^ *^ ^^"d you an account of them, in order that a record may be preserved in any future 
rthrx^nHb '^^^^t^^'^'^y- They are within three quarters of a mile of each other, on a small stream, tributary 
are ea^W r^aM f T T ^T^ ^^ "^ '" ^^'^ ''^^' ^^^'''^ ^^P^^^^« ^^« ^^^*^^« ^^^ tl^^se of Brown's River, They 
inaccessible r^^^^ the Huon foot-path, and are in a beautiful vale of sassafras and tree-ferns, and not in an 
bcadiue over tU. 1 "^ ri '*'''' ^'^^''*''' -'''^^- ^ ^^''^ "^^^^ ^^^^^^ «^^" ^^^ tree-ferns growing in such luxuriance, 
them plainly show a^^^^^^^^ T^'^' ^^^^^^^P'^^- The fire has never reached them, as they and the forest around 
, a every Here and there you are puzzled on seeing a sassafras tree with a root on either side-one 
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