PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



The regular Monthly Meeting of the College was held on the 

 6th inst., in the Lecture Hall of the Pharmaceutical Society of 

 the Province of Quebec. Mr. John Gardner, President, occupied 

 the chair. 



After the reading and approval of minutes, and the usual 

 routine of business, the President called upon Mr. C. Hoffmann 

 to read a paper on the 



EUCALYPTS OF AUSTRALIA. 



The Eucalypts are a genus of trees of the natural order 

 Myrtacese; they are evergreens, with entire and leathery leaves, 

 which instead of having one surface towards the sky and the 

 other towards the earth, are often placed with their edges in this 

 direction, so that each side is exposed to the light. 



This genus, of which at present some one hundred and forty 

 species are known, forms one of the most characteristic features 

 of Australian vegetation, in which it also occupies a very large 

 place, comprising a great number of forest trees, many of them 

 of magnificent proportions. Under favorable conditions of 

 growth, viz., in the sheltered depressions within the Ranges, 

 many varieties attain a colossal size ; in more op^n places, how- 

 ever, they usually occur as middle sized treas. Amongst the 

 species which embrace trees of gigantic growth may be enume- 

 rated : Eucalyptus amygdalina, Labillardiere one of the 

 Peppermint-trees; Eucalyptus goniocalyx, Ferd. Mueller one 

 of the White Gumtrees ; Eucalyptus Stuartiana, Ferd. Mueller 

 also one of the White Gumtrees; and Eucalyptus obliqua, 

 L'Heritier, the Stringybark-tree. 



