Eucalyptus 1623 



Tumut to Berrima, and thence westerly to the Bathurst district. It also occurs near 

 Lake George, and in Argyle and Camden counties; and is common in the 

 Goulburn district. The lanceolate - leaved variety, which is known as Black 

 Peppermint, is common over the greater portion of New England, and also occurs 

 on the summit of Ben Lomond. Both the typical form and the variety occur in 

 Gippsland in Victoria, at Buchan, near Walhalla, around Lake Omeo, and between 

 the Avon and Mitchell's rivers. 



Specimens of the lanceolate-leaved variety have been collected at Killarney and 

 Stanthorpe in Queensland. This species appears to be always a small tree, of no 

 economic value. 



E. pulverulenta was introduced some years before 1819, when it was figured 

 as E. cordata by Loddiges, who states that it only requires ordinary greenhouse 

 protection in winter. It is, however, cultivated in the open air at Abbotsbury,^ 

 where it produces fruit freely, and is said to be hardy. It is also grown at Menabilly, 

 where the best of five specimens is 32 ft. by i ft. 3 in. 



E. pulverulenta has been much confused with E. cordata; and the trees 

 recorded ^ at Braxted Park, Essex, which were said to have been 30 to 40 ft. high, 

 and flowering freely in 1 849-1 851, were in all probability E. cordata. 



E. pulverulenta did not succeed at Kinloch Hourn ; and the tree* planted in 

 1856 at Pirnmill, Isle of Arran, must have died, as Dr. Landsborough does not 

 mention it in his list of the Arran species in 1895. 



Sir F. W. Moore tells us that a small plant at Kilmacurragh in Co. Wicklow 

 appears to be perfectly hardy ; and another at Mount Usher, about eight years old, 

 was thriving and producing flowers in 19 11. At Castlewellan,^ Elwes collected a 

 specimen from a tree 20 ft. high in 1908. (A. H.) 



EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS, Blue Gum 



Eucalyptus globulus, Labillardifere, Relation Voyage Recherche La Pirouse, i. 153, Atlas, t. 13 (1799); 



J. D. Hooker, Fl. Tasm. i. 133 (i860); Bentham and Mueller, Fl. Austral, iii. 225 (1866); 



Mueller, Eucalyptographia, Dec. vi. with two plates (1880), and in Gard. Chron. xiv. 137, 213, 



233 (1880); Bentley and Trimen, Medic. Plants, ii. t. 109 (18S0); Hemsley, in Gard. Chron. 



ii. 784, Supply. Illust. (1887); Maiden, in Austr. Assoc. Advance. Science, Hobart, 1902, 



p. 372; Rodway, Tasmanian Flora, 58 (1903); Pinchot, U.S. Dept. Agric. Forest Service, 



Circ. No. 59 (1907). 

 Eucalyptus cordata, Miquel, in Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 140 (1859) (not Labillardibre). 

 Eucalyptus diversifolia, Miquel, loc. cit. 

 Eucalyptus gigantea, Dehnhardt, Cat. PI Hart. Camald. 20 (1832) (not J. D. Hooker); Mueller, 



in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. xii. 47 (1880). 



A tree, commonly attaining in Australia about 200 ft., rarely nearly 300 ft. in 

 height. Bark smooth, greyish or bluish white, the outer layer peeling off in long 

 ribbons. Young branchlets green, quadrangular, with four prominent ridges ; older 



1 Both at Abbotsbury and Castlewellan, where both species occur, it was wrongly labelled E. cordata. 



2 Gard. Chron. xL 469 {1892). =" Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 524 {1896). 



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