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Though the behaviour of lerp-amylum to iodine and to water, and its insolubility in cupr-ammonia 

 distinguish it from cellulose, it is to be borne in mind that there are forms or conditions of cellulose which 

 are blued by iodine and dissolve in water. (Fluckiger, in Watts Diet., vn, 2nd Suppl., 733.) 



See also a paper " On a new kind of manna from New South Wales," by 

 Tli. Anderson (Journ. fur Prakt. Chemie, xlvii, 499) ; Edin. New Philosoph. 

 Joum., July, 1819, reprinted in Papers and Proc, B.S., V.D. Land, vol. i, 1851. 



A modern analysis of Lerp is a desideratum. 



The Lerp described by Dobson is now Spondilaspis eucalypti, Dobson. 

 Mr. TV. TV. Eroggatt informs me that he has described two more species, viz , 

 S. granidata on PI. robusta and S. mannifera on E. gracilis (calycogona) and 

 E. dumosa. He is about to describe a fourth species. 



Exudation. — For analyses of the kinos of two mallees belonging to this 

 species, collected by the Elder Exploring Expedition, see Trans. Boy. Soc. S.A., 

 vol. xvi, p. 7. 



Timber. — This is not a timber tree, although its massive stock or "root" 

 is a common article of fuel. Its stem or stems are too small to be used as timber. 

 The sap-wood is white, and the remainder of the wood is brown, of one shade or 

 another. 



