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of Eucalyptus viminalis, the more spreading being found in 

 the southwestern border of Victoria, while the whiter and 

 more erect form is found in the mountain ranges, especially 

 in those behind Adelaide. The specimens in the Antelope 

 Valley are not yet matured enough for us to tell one from 

 the other in our present lack of knowledge. No viminalis 

 timber is spoken of as first quality, but it is by some 

 called fair and by others worthless. These varying reports- 

 may be due to the different forms of viminalis producing 

 timber of different values. The characteristic viminalis has 

 nearly always three flowers to the umbel, as represented in 

 Von Mueller's plate ; but some of the rough barked forms 

 here have six or seven flowers to the umbel, generally six. 

 These may be mere sports. A careful examination of many 

 smooth-barked viminalis now in bloom here shows them to- 

 have three flowers to the umbel. Further notes on bloom- 

 ing seasons of the Eucalyptus show them to be very irreg- 

 ular. Some notes on this point are added. 



Calophylla and robusta, December, January and Feb~ 

 ruary. Calophylla entirely over February 8th. Robusta 

 just going out of bloom. Cornuta, diversicolor and botry- 

 oides out of bloom, buds look as if they would be in 

 about June. Amygdalina just coming in again; also citri- 

 odora, polyanthema, globulus and resinifera in full bloom. 

 Sideroxylon blooming, viminalis and cornuta in bloom 

 May ist. 



May yth Sideroxylon, var. pallida, Stuartiana, citriodora, 

 obliqua and tereticornis are all in full bloom. Some Calo- 

 phyllas are in bloom while others have already the fruits 

 hard and nearly mature. 



A report was recently brought to me that the flowers 

 of Eucalyptus tereticornis were fatal to bees. It was no> 



