1642. The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At Wisley, where several species, including E. urnigera, cocci/era, cordata, and 

 Beaucfiampiana, have lately been tried, Mr. Chittenden informs us that the only 

 one which has survived is E. Gunnii, a small specimen of which is four years old. 

 At Myddelton House, Herts, where the same species and some others were tried, 

 E. Gunnii and E. Whittingehamensis were the only ones that bore without injury 

 the winter of 1908- 1909. The former was about 15 feet high in 191 1. 



In Scotland, this species has been considerably planted on the west coast, and 

 thrives as far north as Inverewe, where there are several trees, 30 to 40 ft. high. 

 At Kinloch Hourn, trees raised from Tasmanian seed are perfectly hardy, and did 

 not suffer in the least in the severe winter of 1894- 1895, when the temperature fell 

 to o Fahr., and some of the branches of the Whittingehame seedlings were browned. 

 In Arran, according to the Rev. Dr. Landsborough, 1 the species did not succeed very 

 well, as one planted at Lamlash in 1884 was blown down in 1894, and another in an 

 exposed situation at Whiting Bay had the twigs and leaves injured by frost. At 

 Whitefarland, a tree was 19 ft. high in 1905. 



Mr. R. Lindsay says 2 that in 1899 he raised at Kaimes Lodge, Midlothian, two 

 trees from seed which he received from Mr. Bateman. These are now over 20 ft. 

 high and have produced seed, from which he raised seedlings. In 1909-1910, 

 these seedlings were completely killed, and the old trees were severely injured, but 

 the latter have now recovered. At Dalkeith, it is reported 8 to have borne without 

 injury, growing in a sheltered place, the severe frost of 7th January 1894, when the 

 temperature fell to 4 Fahr. 



At Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, this species is about 15 ft. high and perfectly 

 hardy. (H. J. E.) 



EUCALYPTUS WHITTINGEHAMENSIS, Whittingehame Gum 



Eucalyptus whittingehamensis, Nicholson, in Kew Hand-List Trees, 395 (1902). 

 Eucalyptus whittingehameii, Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 516 (1896). 

 Eucalyptus urnigera,* Masters, in Gard. Chron. iii. 460, figs. 64, 65, and 798, fig. no (1888) (not 

 J. D. Hooker). 1 



A tree, raised at Whittingehame, Scotland, from seed, which was probably 

 obtained in Tasmania. This differs usually from typical E. Gunnii in the absence 

 of glaucous bloom on the branchlets and leaves of the adult plant. The leaves 

 (Plate 365, Fig. 4) are lanceolate, longer in proportion to their width than those 

 of E. Gunnii, and never ovate as in that species, about 3 to 3f in. long and 



1 In Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 517 (1896), and xxiii. 144 (1905). The tree, reported by Dr. Landsborough to be E. 

 Gunnii at Stonefield, is E. urnigera. 



* The Garden, lxxiv. 286 (1910). Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xviii. 76(1895). 



4 The identification of the Whittingehame tree with E. urnigera is inexplicable, as the foliage and flowers of the latter 

 are very different, and its fruits are much larger. Naudin, in Desc. et Enipl. Eucalpt. 35 (1891), followed Masters; but 

 he had not seen adequate material of the Whittingehame tree. According to Mr. Birkbeck, the cotyledons of the 

 Whittingehame seedlings are quite different from those of E. urnigera ; and he adds that no one who has seen both in the young 

 state could possibly confuse them. 



