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Mr. O. H. Sargent, of York, wrote to me in November, 1909 : — 



The nearest E. macrocarpa I know of is about 10 miles distant ; but the shrubs are not flowering 

 this year. I heard last week that the species is in full bloom near Greenhills, probably between 20 and 

 30 miles away It is called " Jjlue Bush" in the Quairading district, where it is plentiful. 



Shrub oi" about 10 feet, flowers scarlet {sic). In sandy ironstone near 

 Quellington (0. H. Sargent). Avon district (E. Pritzel, No. 907). " Est species 

 insignis districtui Avon propria in glareoso-arenosis " (D. 3,957; E. Pritzel PL 

 Austr. occ. 907) (Diels and Pritzel, Tliiglers Jalirh. xxxv, p. 439). 



It grows on the sand-plains 20 miles east of Beverley (W. D. Campbell). 



;Mr. Forest Hanger Gregory told me ho knew the plant. He said it is found 

 70 miles cast of Nortliam [this would be somewhere near Doodlakine. — J.K.M.] 

 that it has a fruit like a " butter print " and that it is knon^n as " Desert Gum or 

 Mallee." 



All the above are in what may be termed the Avon district. 



Eollowing is the only northerly locality represented in this herbarium, and it 

 is in the modern "Wongan HiUs district. 



" Plain north-east from New Norcia." With narrower leaves. (Dr. A. 

 Morrison.) 



Mueller gives the following additional localities for the species : — 



In the scrub-country near the south-eastern sources of the >Swan River (Oliver Jones); in the arid, 

 somewhat elevated and undulating tracts between the Irwin and Greenough Rivers, in sandy as well as 

 gravelly soil (Mueller); near the north-eastern sources of the Blackwood River (T. Muir). 



Between the Irwin and Greenough Rivers would be the most northerly, and 

 sources of the Blackwood River the most southerly records, and I would like to see 

 more definite localities stated. 



Bentham says: "A specimen of Labillardicre's, without flower or fruit, 

 from tlie Maria Island, on the same coast, appears to be the same species " 

 (B.El. iii, 224). Maria Island is off the coast of Tasmania, and I suggest that 

 Labillardicre's specimen is B. cordala, Labill. 



AFFINITY. 



With E. pyriformis, Turcz. 



Mueller, in " Eucalyptographia," romaiks that this is llui only species in "near affinity" to 

 £!. macrocarpa , for, notwitlistaudiiig the great disn'semblaiice arising from the not general glaucous hue, 

 from the stalked as well as scattered and narrower leaves, and from tlw; generally three-flowered umbels of 

 E. ])ijriformis, it nnist be conceded that flowers and fruits ai-o constructed upon the same type ; indeed, in 

 JJrunmiond's collection occur specimens of E. pyrifurmls with opposite and already broader leaves, though, 

 stalked and green ; the mealy whiteness, however, of E. pijriformis is confined to the young calyces 

 chiefly or solely, the flower-stalks are never wanting, the tube of the calyx is often contracted into a 



