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and were not spontaneous ; I desired to see them before I 

 wrote again. I am quite satisfied that they are spon- 

 taneous, and that they are natural hybrids, and that it 

 is expedient that they should have a distinctive name. 

 I therefore concur in Messrs. Baker and Smith's action. 



The Doimain trees: are large, and there are many of 

 them. They also occur at Nelson's Range, near Sandy 

 Bay, and Mr. Rodway informs me that they are not 

 uncommon at Oolebrook (late Jerusalem), on the Ma,in 

 Line, 25 miles from Hobart. In all casies E. tmialafa 

 occurs intermixed with E. globulus and E. viminalis. 

 Doubtless they will be found in many other localitits. 



Mr. Rodway's observation that it is a hj'brid between 

 these two species (first recorded in 1903) is quite obvious, 

 and it is one of the simplest cases of natural hybridisation 

 in the genus known to me. The cross' is seen in the tree 

 generally, in juvenile leaves, buds and fruits. 



12. E. viminalis Labill. 

 C.R. Part xxviii. 



The Dee, near Ellislea house. A "White Gum." An 

 erect tree of 80 feet, 3 feet in diameter. Covered with 

 thinnish lenticular, flaky, deciduous baxk. On a gentle 

 slope in the grass and far from any water,. Fruit rather 

 large and with a conical top to the capsule. This is an 

 example of large fruited viminalis which led me^ at first 

 sight to think I had a different species. 



In C.R. Part xxviii., p. 168, I clraiw special att&ntion 

 to the width of the juvenile leaves in this species. As 

 regards Tasmania, I did not do justice to the breadth of 

 them; I had put some broad specimens aside, and inad- 

 vertently they were not figured. Thoy include: — 



1. Near to Cliimney Pot Hill, 4^- miles from Hobart, 

 (L. Rodway, May, 1910). Several of these ooa'dat© leaves 

 are over 3 cm. broad and 4- cm. long. 



2. Sheffield, growing on basalt (R. IT. Cambage, No. 

 4098, 1st February, 1911). Here we have even broader 

 juvenile leaves, for they are as broad as they can ba, for 

 some are 5 cm. long and 5 cm. broad and others 6 cm. long 

 and 6 cm. broad. The fruits are large in this fonn. 



It would be absurd to speak of such specimens having 

 narrow juvenile leaves, and we must therefore say that in 

 E. viminalis the juvenile leavesi may be narrow tci broad, 

 with many intervening forms, although they are rather 

 narrow in the type. 



