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I have recently received some specimens from the Vienna Herharium labelled 

 " E. pulchella, Hort. Kew." They are in bud, and appear to be identical with 

 E. linearis, Dehnh. Undoubtedly the name pulchella was well bestowed, for the 

 specimens have long, narrow, linear leaves, which are very graceful.* 



I think my determination will be found to be correct, but in view of the 

 paucity of the material and of the amount of doubt surrounding E. linearis, I 

 hesitate to suppress E. linearis until further information is available. 



1,079 Gunn, referred to E. amygdalina by Hooker, is a very narrow-leaved 

 form, which in some herbaria bears the label " E. linearis, Cunn., environs of 

 Hobart Town ; is one of Lhotsky's amygdalina vars." 



I cannot find that Cunningham ever published a species of that name ; the 

 plant appears to be, however, identical with what goes under the name of E. linearis, 

 Dehnh. A Kew label has " E. linearis, Hobart Town, 85/1819, A. Cunn." 



Another specimen of Gunn's 1,079 is labelled " Peppermint Gum," and 

 Backhouse calls it the " Mountain Peppermint," of Oyster Bay. 



I have received cultivated specimens of what is either E. linearis, or a 

 very narrow-leaved form of E. amygdalina, from California, under the name of 

 E. amygdalina, var. angustifolia, Link, a variety name I am unable to trace. There 

 is, however, in Link's Enumeratio ii, 30 — 



No. 227, _E. angustifolia, Desfont. Par. Fol. subsessilia 2 ft. 6 in. Iga., 2 in lata acutata attenuata, 



which may be E. linearis, Dehnh. 



Specimens labelled " E. angustifolia, Desf., in herb. Berol (1900) are 

 E. viminalis, Labill. I observe that Don (Gen. Si/st. ii, 819) refers E. angustifolia, 

 Desf. Link, to E. saligna." 



I may mention that E. angustifolia, Desf., has also been quoted as 

 E. angustifolia., Spreng., et Candolle and E. angustifolia, Link, Enum. ex Spreng.f 

 There is, of course, an E. angustifolia, R.Br., which is E. amygdalina. 



Then we have — 



E. amygdalina, Labill. , Nov. Holl., ii, p. 14. Tab. 154, DC. Prodr., I.e. 219, n. 25. In Tasmania 

 sylvis, locis arenosis, Buffalo Range, N. H. Austr. (sic) — (Stuart, No. 18, Miiller.) Arbor 50-60 ped., 

 peppermint-guni tree incolarum, vere florens, foliis usque 4 poll, longis i latis. 



fl. foliis angustioribus ibidem (Stuart Herb., No. 8) — (Miq. Ned. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 124.) 



Thus Miquel noticed the very narrow leaves (? of linearis, Dehnh.), but I 

 do not know of a narrow-leaved form of amygdalina (or linearis), from Buffalo 

 Range, Victorian Alps. 



• Note on E. linearis, &c. (op. cit.). 



+ See " The Common Eucalyptus Flora of Tasmania and New South Wales." — Maiden, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. 

 Science, ix, 364, 



