26 Rev. D. Laudsborough on Australian [sess li. 



Australia, syu. the weepiug gum, the blue gum, the white 

 gum, the waud gum). — Two have been planted this year 

 in Arran ; a very small one at Captain Brown's, Lamlash, 

 and a larger one at Cromla, Corrie. 



The Eed Box Gum {Eucalyptus polyanthema, syn. Lignum- 

 vitce, South-Eastern Australia).^ — One was planted this year 

 at Cromla, Corrie ; it is about 4 feet in height. 



The Urn-bearing Gum {Eucalyptus cordata, var. urnigera, 

 Southern Tasmania). — " The variety urnigera is particularly 

 hardy, and may become of sanitary importance to colder 

 countries in malarian regions, the foliage being much imbued 

 with antiseptic oil ; greatest height 150 feet, stem circum- 

 ference 18 feet " (Mliller). A plant about 3 feet in height 

 grows at Strabane, Brodick. 



The "White Gum {Eucalyptus paucifiora, syn. coriacea, the 

 weeping gum, the white peppermint tree, the flooded or 

 swamp gum, Xew South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania). — It 

 was sown in 1879, and the following year, when only about 

 9 inches in height, was planted at Captain Brown's, Lamlash. 

 The severest winter followed that we have had for a quarter 

 of a century. It was wholly unprotected, yet not a leaf was 

 even browned. It is now 21 feet in height and 9^ inches 

 in girth, and is growing yearly on an average 3^ feet in 

 height and 2^ inches in girth. Here is encouragement to 

 plant. Sown at one's birth, should one reach the age of 

 seventy, it would then be a tree 230 feet high, with a trunk 

 14^ feet in girth. The specimen at Lamlash grows near the 

 highway facing the sea, and is fully seen from both. It is 

 very liandsome, and has begun to assume a weeping habit. 

 When young, it much resembles a vigorous weeping birch in 

 general habit, though the leaves are different. The leaves 

 are inches in length and 1 inch in breadth (2^ inches 

 shorter, but h inch broader, than those of the giant gum, E. 

 amygdalina), and are attached by a short stalk. 



Suraraary. — Already nine species of Eucalyptus are grow- 

 ing in AiTan. These include the greater number of the 

 most interesting species. In Arran they do not in gene- 

 ral grow witli tlie wonderful rapidity seen in Australia, 

 though, as has been mentioned, the blue gum adds 4 feet 

 yearly to its height, and the white gum 2i inches to its 

 girth ; yet, in consequence of the moist, mild, and compara- 



