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The reticular Monthly Meeting of the College was held on the 

 0th inst., in the Lecture Hull of the Pharniaeeutical Society of 

 the Province of Quebec. 3Ir. John Gardner, President, occupied 

 the chair. 



After the reading and approval of miiiutCf:, and the usual 

 routine of business, the President called ui)on Mr. C. Hoffmann 

 to read a paper on the 



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EUCALYl'TS OF AUSTRALIA. 



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The Eucalypts arc a genus of trees of the natural order 

 Myrtacese; they are evergreens, with entire and leathery leaves, 

 which instead of having one surface towards the sky and the 

 other towards the earth, are often placed with their edges in this 

 direction, so that each side is exposed to the liglit. 



This genus, of which at present some one hundred and forty 

 species arc known, forms one of the most characteristic features 

 of Australian vegetation, in which it also occupies a very large 

 place, comprising a great number of forest trees, many of them 

 of magnificent proportions. Under favorable conditions of 

 -n-owth, viz., in the .sheltered depressions within the llangcs, 

 many varieties attain a colossal size ; in more open places, liow- 

 ever, they usually occur as middle sized trees. Amongst the 

 species which embrace trees of gigantic growth may be enume- 

 rated : Euadnptns ami/fjdnlinK, Labillardiere — one of the 

 Peppermint-trees; Eaadi/ptus goniocidij.c, Ferd. IMueller — one 

 of the White Gumtrces; J'Jucdi/ptus Staartuin", V^rd. Mueller 

 —also one of the White Gumtrces; and Eacaiijptas obh'qiui, 

 L'llerltier, the Stringybark-trec. 



