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In 18GG appeared the third volume of Beuthaui's Flora Australiensis, which 

 will alvN'ays remain a classic as far as the genus Eucalyptus is concei*ned. 



From 1879 to 1881 there was published Mueller's Monograph of One 

 Hundred Species of Eucalyptus, which is of the highest value. 



There can be no doubt that the time has arrived when a process akin to the 

 consolidation of legal statutes is desirable as regards the National Genus of 

 Australian Plants. The literature is very scattered, and so are the types; a few 

 I have not been able to see, and do not even knoAV where they are. Perhajis 

 European botanists will kiiidly assist me with sj)ecimens or drawings, for which I 

 will make the amplest recompense I can. 



Following is a list of herbaria of Eucalyptus examined by vae. In a number 

 of cases the collections have very kindly been remitted to me in Sydney : — 



Berkeley, University of California, U.S.A. 

 Berlin, Eoyal Botanic Garden. 

 Calcutta, Eoyal Botanic Garden. 

 Cambridge, University. 

 Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden. 

 Geneva, Herbier Barbey-Boissier. 



„ „ De Candolle. 



Glasgow, University. 

 Kew, Eoyal Gardens. 

 Melbourne, National Herbarium. 

 Natal (Durban), Colonial Herbarium. 

 Oxford, University. 



Vienna, Imperial and Eoyal Natural History Museum. 

 Washington, U.S., United States National Herbarium (Smithsonian 

 Institution). 



Following are the works consulted by me up to date. Others will be referred 

 to under separate species. 



L'Heritier. 



Sertnm Angiicum, seu plantae rariores, quae in hortis juxta Londinum imprimis 

 in horto regio Kewensi excoluntur.* 



This work contains tlie first description of Eucalyptus, the first specie" 

 described being E. obliqua. 



•L'Heritier de Brutelle, a Frencli botanist, came to England in 1780-7, and studied the Kew collections, wliicli 

 appear to have been fully placed at his disposal. He published in 1788 at Paris a large folio with 34 plates. He brought 

 over Redouti's the celebrated French botanical artist to make the drawings. (Keic iliil/i/fin, ISOl, p. 29G.) 



