104 AUSTRALIAN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



13ft. 5in. at 2ft. from the ground, where it divides into three 

 stems, which afterwards divide into six main limbs, of which 

 the largest is over 5ft. in girth. It is stated that the seedlings 

 raised from E. Whittingehamensis are equally hardy, and 

 withstand frosts that kill other species. At Abbotsbury there 

 is a specimen of this very interesting species now five years 

 old and measuring 30ft. in height. I have also received 

 specimens from trees at Wisley Gardens and Myddelton 

 House, Waltham Cross. 



E. acervula. Swamp or Red Gum. Australia and 

 Tasmania. This differs from E. Gunnii in its larger size and 

 in the branchlets, leaves and flowers and fruit being never 

 glaucous. Leaves larger than in E. Gunnii. This is not a 

 common species. There are three trees at Menabilly in 

 Cornwall. There is one moderately large tree growing on the 

 Horse Shoe Common at Bournemouth, named by Dr. Henry. 

 It does not appear in the list of the Abbotsbury Gardens. 



E. Muelleri. Mueller's Red Gum. This is confined to 

 Tasmania, where it usually grows on high, bleak lands. The 

 young branches are reddish with prominent oil glands. Leaves 

 are alternate, thick and firm in texture. Flower-buds sessile, 

 with the calyx tube angled and the operculum tuberculate. 

 This species is said to be rather rare in cultivation. There 

 is a specimen 15ft. high on the Horse Shoe Common at Bourne- 

 mouth, and there were two trees 4.0ft. high flourishing at 

 Abbotsbury and bearing flower-buds in 1911. The latter 

 stood in an exposed situation, and are considered very 

 hardy. A well-grown tree at Derreen, co. Kerry, in 1910, 

 measured 63ft. by 4ft. It was then thirty-six years old. 



Eucalyptus cocci f era. Mountain Peppermint. In the 

 mountains of Tasmania this reaches a height of 20ft. It was 

 discovered in 1840, and in 1851 a plant, eleven years old, was 

 growing in Veitch's Nursery at Exeter. According to Elwes 

 and Henry this " is the hardiest and most successful of all 

 species of Eucalyptus in Britain." It is so named from the 

 whitish bloom on the branches and leaves, resembling the 

 waxy secretion of some species of coccus. The leaves are 



