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Rydal (J.H.M.) " Cabbage Gum " and " White Gum," Sunny Corner to Tarana 

 (A. Murphy) ; multi-flowered ; small fruits precisely matching the Marulan specimens. 

 One of the forms showing the impossibility of separating maculosa from ovata, " Cabbage 

 Gum," Portland and Sunny Corner (J. L. Boorman) ; " Brittle Gum," " White Gum," 

 Capertee (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.) ; " Silver Leaf White Gum," Capertee (A. Murphy) ; 

 " Spotted Gum," glaucous, Ilford (R. T. Baker). A co-type of his E. lactea. 



" Spotted Gum," E. maculosa var. B. of Mr. Baker, Oberon-road, O'Connell 

 (R. T. Baker and R. H. Cambage). 



Also at Mount Vincent, Ilford (R. T. Baker). (These are also Mr. Baker's 

 E. lactea localities.) 



" Spotted Gum," E. lactea R. T. Baker. Oberon (R. T. Baker). In addition 

 to the above, Mr. Baker also quoted Southern-road, Wingello, and Main Western-road, 

 Blackheath and Mount Victoria for E. lactea. Bathurst and Burraga (R. H. Cambage) ; 

 " Cabbage Gum," Bathurst (A. Murphy and others) ; Bathurst to Sofala (R. H. 

 Cambage and J.H.M.) ; ' White Gum," dark bark at butt, fruits up to seven in 

 umbel, opercula longer than usual. Rosedale, Orange (R. H. Cambage) ; " White 

 Brittle Gum," Ophir, Orange (R. H. Cambage). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. praecox Maiden. See E. praecox below. 



2. With E. rubida Deane and Maiden. 



The bark is patchy, like E. tereticoniis, and also ribbony or ribbony-scaly right 

 up to the first fork. Rough ribbony, like E. viminalis, E. Gunnii and E. rubida often 



are. 



In dry situations it is often difficult to discriminate between it and E. rubida. 



I have, on several occasions, had to obtain branches of tall trees in order to discover 

 which form they were. 



3. With E. ovata Labill. 



I sometimes cannot separate E. maculosa and E. ovata, intimately as I think I 

 know them. Nearly every character seems to have transit forms, but the juvenile 

 foliage (narrow in E. maculosa and broadish in E. ovata) is usually the best guide. The 

 awkward part is that they are not always available. In the case of many Blue Mountains 

 specimens in particular, if only buds or fruits, or both are available, I find myself, at 

 different times, placing the same specimen first under one species and then under the 

 other. 



The same remarks apply to specimens in my possession from Wingello in the 

 Goulbum district. 

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