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1898. J. G. Luehmann. One of the few references concerning Eucalyptus 

 seedlings is — 



" There is one feature which will, probably, throw more light upon the limits of species as well as their 

 affinities, with which we are not yet sufficiently acquainted; this is the character of the seedlings. I 

 venture to express a hope that in the near future one of our botanic gardens will undertake the 

 investigation of the subject, which requires not only great knowledge and care, but also certain means 

 that are only at the command of few people.*' (Rep. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, vii, 524.) 



1902. In A. J. McClatchie's work (U.S. Department of Agriculture; Bureau of 

 Forestry, Bulletin No. 35) we have the most extensive series of photographs of seedlings 

 of species of Eucalyptus known to me. There are thirty-two species on eight plates, 

 but only the names are given, together with a few notes at p. 84. One species is shown 

 in each picture, and they are fair-sized plants. 



1914. Cuthbert Hall, M.D. " The Evolution of the Eucalypts in relation to the 

 Cotyledons and Seedlings, - ' Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxxix, 473, with numerous plates 

 consisting of several small seedlings (one for each species) to a plate (1914). The most 

 important research on the subject at the date of publication. He refers to the work 

 of Lubbock in this connection, and also to that of Mueller, which he rightly criticises, 

 I think, the errors of nomenclature being probably caused by Mueller's dependence 

 on outside nurserymen, and because of the state of Eucalyptus nomenclature at the time. 

 Dr. Hall's tropical seedlings are sometimes doubtful ; I received the seeds before he did, 

 and I know their history. Some of the figures in the plates are extremely difficult 

 to see and to compare, since they are at all angles, and some are even reversed. The 

 quaint Bakerian nomenclature is adopted without synonyms. 



Maiden, J. H. My own work on the seedlings has been continuously in progress 

 since 1899, and could not have been carried out without the co-operation of Miss 

 Margaret Flockton, the artist of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. I am very much 

 indebted to the late and present Superintendents of the Botanic Gardens, Messrs. George 

 Harwood and E. N. Ward, and Messrs. Sydney Smith and Ralph Tate, Propagators. 

 Selections from Miss Flockton's beautiful coloured drawings, representing the seedlings 

 in all stages, have been from time to time shown before Sydney Scientific Societies since 

 1904, but I have abstained from publishing them, for the same reason which has caused 

 me to abstain from jxiblishing my notes on other phases of the Eucalyptus question — 

 from a desire to generalise from material from as large a number of species as possible. 

 Of most species large numbers of individuals were raised, and from as many localities 

 as possible. Anyone who has had horticultural experience knows that while in a pan 

 of seedlings no two seedlings are precisely alike, and extreme forms may show a good 

 deal of variation, it is for that reason risky to make deductions except on a large number 

 of individuals. This applies to hypocotyl, cotyledons, and leaves of all kinds — they 

 all vary. Seedlings from the same capsule vary. 



