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of discovery. Baron Von Mueller, - coming into this field 

 late, has described and named more species than any one 

 person; in fact he is now the recognized authority 011 

 this genus. Anyone desiring to study the .Eucalyptus 

 should by all means procure. Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller's 

 Bucalyptographia, together with his other numerous works 

 on the genus. Bentham's Flora Australiensis is reliable. 

 The splendid work commenced by J. Ednie Brown on the 

 Forest Flora of South Australia is in folio size and con- 

 tains colored plates of each tree described. This work 

 unfortunately was never finished. Prof. J. H. Maiden's 

 "useful native plants of Australia" contains valuable infor- 

 mation on the kinos, oils and timbers of the genus. Many 

 valuable and interesting articles on the Eucalyptus are scat- 

 tered about in scientific journals or in monographs practically 

 inaccessible to us in California. Bentham's and Von Muel- 

 ler's works are expensive. Most of the popular and many 

 of the scientific monographs" on these valuable trees and 

 their products are out of print, and a considerable percent- 

 age are in French, and a few in Italian and Spanish. It 

 seems useful, therefore, to bring some of this scattered in- 

 formation together in this work. To it I have added our 

 Californian experiences. Indeed, it is especially to furnish 

 a popular statement of facts for Californian use that I have 

 undertaken this monograph on the Eucalyptus. 



The first great acclimatizer and Eucalyptus missionary 

 was M. P. Ramel. This gentleman was so struck with 

 the extraordinary qualities of this genus while at Mel- 

 bourne, in 1854, that he started a crusade in its favor. 

 Planchon calls Von Mueller the prophet and Ramel the 

 apostle of -the Eucalyptus. The first Eucalyptus tree 

 known to have grown outdoors in Europe is said to have 



