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In 1S66 appeared the third volume of Benthani's Flora Australiensis, which 

 will always remain a classic as far as the genus Eucalyptus is concerned. 



Prom 1879 to 1SS1 there was published Mueller's Monograph of One 

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



There can he 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 eA'en know where they are. Perhaps 

 European botanists will kindly assist me with specimens or drawings, for which I 

 will make the amplest recompense I can. 



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

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



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

 Berlin, Royal Botanic Garden. 

 Calcutta, Boyal Botanic Garden. 

 Cambridge, University. 

 Edinburgh, B,oyal Botanic Garden. 

 Geneva, Herbier Barbey-Boissier. 



,, „ De Candolle. 



Glasgow, University. 

 Kew, Royal Gardens. 

 Melbourne, National Herbarium. 

 Natal (Durban), Colonial Herbarium. 

 Oxford, University. 



Vienna, Imperial and Boyal 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. 



Sertum Anglicum, seu plantae rariores, quae in hortis juxta Londinum imprimis 

 in horto regio Kewensi excoluntur.* 



This work contains the first description of Eucalyptus, the first specie* 

 described being E. obliqiia. 



•L'Heritier de Brutelle, a French botanist, came to England in 1786-7, and studied the Kew collections, which 

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

 over Redouts, the celebrated French botanical artist to make the drawings. (Kew Bulletin, 1891, p. 296.) 



