1616 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



E. hamastoma, Smith, a large timber tree of New South Wales and Queens- 

 land. Seedlings planted at Kinloch Hourn and in the Isle of Arran 1 were soon 

 killed.* 



E. letuoxylon, Mueller, the Iron-Bark of New South Wales, Victoria, and South 

 Australia. This was killed at Abbotsbury in the severe weather of 1908. A tree at 

 Rossdohan, Kerry, of this species, as well as it can be identified from a barren 

 branch, was 33 ft. by 2 ft. 3 in. in 19 10. 



E. obliqua, L'Heritier, the Stringy Bark, an immense tree, abundant in 

 Tasmania and forming the great part of the hill forests, ascending, according to Sir 

 J. D. Hooker, to 4000 feet ; also common in Victoria, New South Wales, and South 

 Australia. We have specimens, without flowers or fruit, from two trees at Menabilly, 

 which are probably this species. The largest is reported to have been 40 ft. by 2 ft. 

 8 in. in January 191 1 ; the smaller one being 26 ft. by 1 ft. 11 in. A tree at 

 Tregothnan, planted about five years and 20 ft. high in 191 1, may also be referred to 

 this species. Seedlings did not survive at Kinloch Hourn ; but Mr. T. A. Dorrien- 

 Smith informed Mr. Birkbeck in 1894 that he had a thriving tree at Tresco, Scilly 

 Isles, which was 30 ft. high and twenty years old. This species was killed at 

 Abbotsbury in the severe weather of 1908. As it ascends to a high elevation in 

 Tasmania, seeds from there should produce hardy plants ; but it appears to be rare 

 in collections, and possibly only lowland forms have been tried. 



E. resini/era, Smith, a tall tree, occurring in New South Wales and Queensland, 

 where it is known as Red Gum. This was recorded 8 as one of the plants uninjured 

 at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, in the severe winter of 1879-1880 ; but it is very doubtful 

 if the tree was correctly named ; and we have not seen or heard of any specimens of 

 this species in the open air in the British Isles. 



E. rudis, Endlicher, a native of West Australia. Planted out in 1887 at Cromla 

 in Arran, 4 it had attained 15 ft. high in 1895, when it lost all its branches and leaves. 

 Afterwards it sprouted from the root, and was 22 ft. high in 1905. Seedlings planted 

 out at Kinloch Hourn were speedily killed. At Bradfield, Devon, it was reported 5 

 to have been cut to the ground in 1885 ; but it afterwards sent up strong shoots. It 

 was killed at Abbotsbury in the severe winter of 1908. 



E. stellulata, Sieber, a small tree, occurring in Victoria and New South Wales. 

 This has produced flowers and fruit at Rossdohan, Kerry ; but it is unlikely to prove 

 hardy anywhere except in the extreme west of Kerry or in the Scilly Isles. It has 

 not been tried, so far as we know, except at Rossdohan. 



The following key, based on the characters of the foliage, will serve to distin- 

 guish the species in cultivation in the open air in Great Britain and Ireland, and 

 includes only those which have attained a considerable age, and have borne flowers 

 and fruit : 



1 Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 524 (1896). 



* A tree cultivated under this name at Abbotsbury is E. urnigera ; and another so-named at Leonardslee is apparently 

 a form of E. Gunnii, which has survived 26" of frost. Sir E. G. Loder has tried E. globulus, E. cocci/era, E. urnigera, 

 E. pulverulenta, E. amygdalina, and E. viminalis : but these are always killed by 20 to 24 of frost. 



3 By Ewbank, in Journ. Hoy. Hort. Soc. viii. to (1887). 



4 Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 520 (1896), and xxiii. 149 (1905). 

 6 J. W. in Card. Chron, xxvi. 754 (1886). 





