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on a slender stalk or peduncle; the lid of the calyx is smooth 
and protracted into a beak-like elongation (whence the specific 
name); the fruits are small and open usually with four always 
exserted teeth-like valves. Like in most other Eucalypts the 
form of the leaves of very young plants is also characteristic for 
this species. 
To contrast further the specific characteristics of Hucalypts, a 
second illustration is given, that of the Honey-Eucalypt (Huca- 
lyptus melliodora). This tree passes by the very unapt vernacu- 
lar name Yellow Box-tree, though no portion of it is yellow, not 
even its wood, and though the latter resembles the real boxwood 
in no way whatever. Its systematic specific name alludes to the 
odor of its flowers, like that of honey, and as the blossoms exude 
much nectar, like most Eucalypts, sought by bees, it is proposed 
to call it the small-leaved Honey-Eucalypt, because the Latin 
name might as easily be conveyed to memory, with the advantage 
of its being a universal one, understood and used by all nations. 
Indeed the very study of the ancient languages at grammar- 
schools would become vain, were scientific appellations arising 
from Latin and Greek, mostly very euphonious, to be discarded. 
The bark of E. melliodora is persistent, rough and furrowed, but 
not very stringy ; the leaves are comparatively small ; the umbels 
consist of three or several flowers, and are partly somewhat 
paniculate ; the calyx is rather small, not angular, with some- 
what conic rarely hemispheric lid; the outer stamens are de- 
prived of anthers, by which means this species can be easily 
distinguished from a very large number of its congeners; the 
anthers are very minute, roundish or somewhat heart-shaped, and 
open with two terminal pores; the fruit-calyx is half ege- 
shaped or truncate-ovate, narrowly margined around the sum- 
mit; the teeth-like valves over the seed-bearing cavities, which 
vary from four to six in number, are quite enclosed within the 
calyx (Fig. VII.). The geographic range of the Honey-Eucalypt 
extends from New England to Victoria as far as the boundary of 
South Australia or slightly beyond it ; westward thence another 
species, E. odorata, taking its place, seeking preferentially the 
limestone-formation for its growth. In contradistinction of the 
