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la. Then Howitt {Troc. Aust. Assoc. Ado. Science vii, 517 [1898]) founded 

 his E. pulverulenta Sims (F.v.M.) var. lanceolata Howitt following Mueller as 

 regards E. pulcerulenta. 



lie says : — 



1. Typical puloerulenta is not found in Victoria. (As regards the broad- 

 leaved form he is correct so far as the records go, but he was not aware that his 

 " typical E. pulverulenta " may have narrow lanceolate leaves.) 



2. Only that form is found in Victoria with opposed, elongated lanceolar 

 leaves in the aged trees, and this he called E. puloerulenta var. lanceolata. 



lie quotes the range of his variety as " Between the Pilot Eange and 

 Bcechworth (F.v.M.), near the Ovens River (C. Falek), and in the Ovens district 

 (D. Ingle). In Gippsland I hive observed it near Buchan, at Providence Ponds 

 (between/ the Avon and Mitchell Rivers), near Ostler's Creek, on the Walhalla Uoad, 

 between Darlimurla and Mirboo North, at Monkey Creek between Sale and Port 

 Albert, and at Moe." 



He presented me with specimens of all he collected. 



He says that the number of flowers in the head varies from three to six. 

 His specimens were mostly multiflowered, and his variety lanceolata is my variety 

 multijlora (in part) the exception being the three-flowered Victorian specimens. It 

 is interesting to find that so keen an observer as Howitt believed that' E. 

 puloerxdenla (as he understood it) included that Stuartiana which I have included 

 in my cinerea multijlora. I invite my readers to peruse his very interesting paper. 



2. With E. Stuartiana F.v.M. (the "Stuartiana confusion"). 



Now we come to E. Stuartiana, and the muddle becomes greater still. 



I desire at the outset to point out that there arc three E. Stuartianas F.v.M. 

 in botanical literature. 



(1) E. Gunnii Hook, f., var. acercula (E. acercula Hook. f.). 



Let me call this Stuartiana prima. 



(2) E. cinerea F.v.M., var. multijlora {Stuartiana secunda). 



(3) E. Stuartiana F.v.M., the But But (E. Bridr/esiana It. T. Baker) 



(Stuartiana tertia). 

 I shall return to the subject when I come to the plant which I have adopted 

 as E. Stuartiana F.v.M., viz., the " But But," and again when I come to the 

 E. Gunnii series. 



Mueller, Eucalyptographia under E. pulverulenta, makes the following 

 statement. (He has Stuartiana secunda in his mind's eye.) 



" In the systematic definition and in the illustration I have not included a 

 Bucalypt, the leaves of which in aged trees become elongated-lanceolar, much 

 narrowed upwards, rind even somewhat sickle-shaped, though their base remains 



