50 EUCALYPTS CULTIVATED IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Greek "* white wood.)"" as it is known in parts of Australia, the pros- 

 pective difficulty would be obviated. A name concerning which there 

 is considerable confusion is "Red Gum."- Probably the species most 

 entitled to it is E. rostrata^ but both in Australia and America the 

 name "Red Gum'" is applied to several additional species for which 

 there is no other good popular name. In America the name "Sugar 

 Gum"' has been applied to E. corynoccdyw alone, so far as known; and 

 the term "Manna Gum," so far as it has been used at all, to E. vuni- 

 nalis alone. E. cormda^ and this species alone, is known here to some 

 extent as the " Yate.'" and the name "Bloodwood"" seems to ])e applied 

 to E. corymbosa only. But few, if any, others of the tiftv or more 

 species growing- in America are yet known widel}' by any common 

 names. 



Consequently, the reader of this publication, and growers of the 

 species for some years to come, will have to bear patiently with the 

 use of the botanical names of the species. There will be no great 

 hardship or inconvenience in doing this, as most of the names are quite 

 expressive, referring to some prominent feature of the trees. For 

 example. calophyUa means '"beautiful leaved;" cor/acm means "leath- 

 ery," referring to the leaves; corynocalyx niea,ns "club-shaped calyx;" 

 co?muta means "horned;" diversicolor refers to the diverse colors of 

 the two sides of the leaf; glohulus refers to the globular seed-cases; 

 goniocalyx means "angled calyx;"' /i pern as foma means "bloody or red 

 mouthed;" hucoxylon, "white wood;" longifolia^ "long leaved;" 

 e!tri(xlora, "citrus odored" (referring in this case to fhe citrus fruit, 

 lemon); melliodora^ "hone}' odored; " tnicrotheca, "small seed-case;" 

 ohlajua refers to the oblique leaves of the tree; j^olyantJiema, "manj'^ 

 flowered;" 7>(<;icto?'«, "dotted;" reslnifera, "resin-bearing:"" rohusta 

 refers to the robust appearance of the tree; rostrata refers to the ros- 

 trate or beaked flower buds; saligna means "willow wood;" sidero- 

 yhloia means "iron bark;" sideroxylon, "iron wood;" tereticornis 

 means "round-horned," referring to the terete or cylindrical flower 

 buds, and vim {7iaUs inesms "osier willow." The termination "oides" 

 means "like," the specific name acmenoides, for example, meaning 

 "acmen-like;" hoti^yoides meaning botr3^s or grape like, (referring 

 to the clusters of the seed-cases), and eugenioides meaning "Eugenia- 

 like, " referring to Eugenia, a plant genus of Australia. A few spe- 

 cific names (and fortunately only a few of those applied to Eucalypts 

 generally planted) are Latinized forms of proper names, having been 

 assigned by the namer and describer in honor of some botanical 

 worker. For example, Eucalyptus gunnii is the Latin for "Gunn's 

 EucaWpt;" and the name s^««r?5mwa was assigned in honor of a col- 

 lector named Stuart. Eucalyptua^ the name of the genus, means, as 

 has been stated, "well concealed," referring to the complete manner 

 in which the essential organs of the flower are covered. 



