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There is a specimen of this plant in Herb. Paris to which Naudin has attached a 

 note, " E. acervula Sieb. Reuni par Bentham a l'Eucalyptus Stuartiana— espece cloutant." 



(/) " White Gum of Mount Macedon, F. Mueller, 1852." 



(g) An identical specimen from -" Barwon, 1853," has the label " E. Stuartiana, 



formerly labelled E. Gunnii,'" showing that Mueller labelled the plant Gunnii, 



then Stuartiana (and finally Gunnii). 

 (h) Bullarook Ranges, Ballarat. 

 (j) Curdie's Inlet, 1874 (f. — j. are Victorian). 



(k) " E. Stuaitiana, one of the White Gum trees. In moist localities, as well in plains as ranges. 

 A tree of an enormous size in Victoria, perhaps only surpassed by the Eucalyptus amygdalina 

 and the Karri Eucalypt of West Australia (E. diversicolor or E. eolossea)." (Mueller in 

 Official Record, Intercol. Exhib. Melb. 1866-7, p. 222). 



On; of the White Gum trees of the eastern parts of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and the 

 south of New South Wales ; called, strange to say, the Apple-tree about Dandenong ; (confusion with 

 another Stuartiana F.v.M., J.H.M.) the Water Gum tree of Tasmania may belong to the same species; 

 it is designated locally with still other names. The bark of this often very big tree, furnishes good material 

 for packing paper, and, like others, for pasteboard (another example of confusion), (ib. p. 246). 



(I) " E. Stuartiana, F.v.M., Marshall's Plains, Flinders' Island. A. Simson (573), 

 June, 1877 " (W. W. Spicer in Herb. Oxon.). 

 It is the " Red Gum, E. acervula,'' of Spicer's " Handbook of the Plants of 

 Tasmania," p. 112. 



(m) In the Tasmanian Court of the Melbourne Exhibition, 1888, were shown " Red 

 Gum " sleepers (" E. Stuartiana ") from Rhyndaston, belonging to the Tas- 

 manian Government Railways. 



In R. M. Johnston's " Tasmanian Official Record," 1891, p. 136, the following 



passage occurs :— 



Red Gum, E. Stuartiana Muell. This tree is common near Southport, but more widely distributed 

 in the south-eastern ranges of Australia. When well grown it attains a middle size, seldom reaching 100 

 feet in height. Stems oftener twisted than straight. The wood is stated to be hard, but does not split 

 well : it is used for fence posts, and it is then very durable ; sometimes used for rough kinds of furniture, 

 as it takes polish well. It is known as " But-But " in Gippaland. 



It is evident from this that the timber of E. ovata is more valued in Tasmania 

 than on the mainland; the erroneous allusion to " But-But " will be understood on 

 reference to E. Stuartiana, p. 67, 68, Part xxiv of the present work. 



It is this E. Stuartiana for the most part which is the E. Stuartiana of B.F1. iii, 

 243. The synonyms there given are : — 



(a) E. acervula Hook, f., non Sieb., (b) E. Gunnii F.v.M., non Hook., (c) 

 E. perncifolia Miq., non Lodd., (d) E .Baueriana Miq., non Schauer, (e) E. falcifoliaMiq. 

 (one specimen). 



E.falcifolia Miq., in this connection, requires a little explanation, and it is given 

 at pp. 61, 62, Part ii of the present work. Some of the specimens distributed as E. 

 falcifolia are E. Gunnii var. acervula (E. ovata), and so is " one specimen " examined 

 by Bentham, but the specimen figured by me at Fig. 4, Plate 8 is E. ohliqua L'Herit. 

 In other words, the material distributed as E. falcifolia was mixed. 

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