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2. Whittingehame House. Height, 7 feet. Killed to 

 within 3 feet of ground. " This most interesting species 

 grows only on the top of Mount Fatigue, Tasmania, 

 lat. 46°. It is far the hardiest, and the most dwarf of 

 euealjrpts." — Birkbeck. 



IV. (h). Eucalyptus verrucosa. — Clauchog, Lag, Arran. 

 Planted 1S90. Height, 3 feet. Killed. It grew under 

 a tree. Is this plant distinct from £. vernicosa? It is 

 mentioned by Johnson as ha^'ing been introduced to Britain 

 in 1820, nor is verrucosa, as given by him, a misprint for 

 vernioosa, as he adds, within brackets, the translation 

 " warted," In the Greenhouse of the Edinburgh Royal 

 Botanic Garden there are at present (March 1896) plants 

 labelled with these names, and the plants appear distinct, 

 but Mr. Birkbeck informs me that ^. vernicosa is not 

 recogmised in Index Kewensis. 



V. Eucalyptus coccifera (Coccus-bearing Gum). 



1. Lochhournhead. " Several of the younger plants cut 

 to the ground ; the older trees a good deal browned. One 

 had bloomed when five years old." — Birkbeck. 



2. Whittingehame. "A plant 10 feet in height. 

 Killed." — Garrett. 



3. Stonefield, Tarbert. Sown 1881. Height, 21 feet; 

 girth, Ibh inches. Bloomed 1895. Not much injured. 



4. Arran, Lag. (Upper Clauchog, 250 feet above sea- 

 level, and with the exception of a low wall and a thorn 

 hedge, exposed to all the fury of the Atlantic.) Planted 

 1886. Height, 14 feet; girth, 1 foot 4 inches at 

 21 feet. The exposed leaves killed. Has not bloomed. 

 The exposed situation the probable hindrance. 



5. Eoseneath, Free Church Manse (opposite Greenock, 

 and only five miles direct from it). Planted 1886. 

 "Bloomed middle of June 1891, when only 6 feet 7 

 inches in height, and has continued to bloom every year. 

 Height, 15 feet. Uninjured." — Eev. John M'Ewan. 



6. Gadgirth, Ayrshire, on banks of Eiver Ayr, 4f miles 

 (direct) from the sea. Sown in the open border in 1881. 

 Germinated well. The leaves of this species are generally 

 glaucous, but those of one of the seedlings were covered on 

 both sides with a hoary bloom, rendering them almost 

 white. It seemed not to be so hardv as the others, grew 



