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2. With E. globulus, Labill. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia," under E. megacarpa) has already compared 

 them, and their resemblances and differences may be stated as follows : — 



The juvenile foliage is much more glaucous in E. globulus, and sessile, the 

 mature foliage longer and more aromatic. The buds and fruits are usually warty, 

 and much more variable than has hitherto been ascertained in E. megacarpa. 



E. megacarpa is a snappy, gouty White Gum with inferior timber ; E. globulus 

 is an erest tree with more or less ribbony bark at the butt, and with hard durable 

 timber. 



E. megacarpa and E. globulus resemble each other in their anthers (the 

 filaments are, however, not glandular), and in the convexity of the rim of the fruit. 

 E. megacarpa has no very close relation, and hence, because we do not yet know its 

 near relations, is what we know as a "strong" species; E. globulus is perhaps as 

 near to it as any other. 



