la. Then Howitt (Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Sciense vii, 517 [1898]) founded 

 his E. pulverulenta Sims (F.v.M.) var, lanceolata Howitt following Mueller as 

 regards E. pulverulenta. 



He says : — 



1. Typical puloerulenta is not found in Victoria. (As regards the broad- 

 leaved form be is correct so far as the records go, but be was not aware that his 

 " typical E. pulverulenta " may bave narrow lanceolate leaves.) 



2. Only that form is found in Victoria with opposed, elongated lanceolar 

 leaves in the aged trees, and this he called E. puloerulenta var. lanceolata. 



He quotes the range of bis variety as " Between the Pilot Range and 

 Beechworth (F.v.M.), near the Ovens River (C. Fakk), and iu the Ovens district 

 (D. Ingle). In Gippsland I have observed it near Bucban, at Providence Ponds 

 (between'the Avon and Mitchell Rivers), near Ostler's Creek, on the Walhalla Uoad, 

 between Darliraurla and Mb/boo North, at Monkey Creek between Sale and Port 

 Albert, and at Moe." 



He presented me with specimens of all he collected. 



He says that the number of flowers in the head varies from three to six. 

 His specimens were mostly multifiowered, and bis variety lanceolata is my variety 

 multiflora (in part) the exception being the three-flowered Victorian specimens. It 

 is interesting to find that so keen an observer as Howitt believed that E. 

 pulverulenta (as he understood it) included that Stuartiana which I have included 

 in my cinerea multiflora, I invite my readers to peruse his very interesting paper. 



2. With E. Stuartiana F.v.M. (the "Stuartiana confusion"). 



Now we come to E. Stuartiana, and the muddle becomes greater still. 



I desire at the outset to point out that there are three E. Sluartianas F.v.M. 

 in botanical literature. 



(1) E. Gunnil Hook, f., var. acervula (E. acervula Hook. f.-). 



Let me call this Stuartiana prima. 



(2) E. cinerea F.v.M., var. multiflora [Stuartiana secunda). 



(3) E. Stuartiana F.v.M., the But But (E. Bridgesiana R. T. Baker) 



(Stuartiana tertia). 



I shall return to the subject when I come to the plant which I have adopted 

 as E. Stuartiana F.v.M., viz., the " But But," and again when I come to the 

 E. Gunuii series. 



Mueller, Eucalyptographia under E. pulverulenta, makes the following 

 statement. (He has Stuartiana secunda in his mind's eye.) 



" In the systematic definition and in the illustration I have not included a 

 Eucalypt, the leaves of which in aged trees become elongated-lanceolar, much 

 narrowed upwards, and even somewhat sickle-shaped, though their base remains 



