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second list of equivalents according to the laws of botanical nomenclature. It is not 

 the fault of botanists that the nomenclature of Eucalyptus cannot be stereotyped to-day. 

 A really remarkable amount of work has been done in this direction, particularly during 

 the last twenty-five years, and while all species will not be discovered and examined, 

 even in a century to come, I consider that it would be a feat of which botanists might be 

 proud, if they find themselves able to secure a fairly stable nomenclature of species in 

 this genus in the course of a further twenty-five years. 



e. Old Vernaculars. 

 The following may be added to the list of old vernaculars quoted in Part L, p. 308. 



Oxley's "Journal of Two Expeditions . . . 1817-18" (published 1820), 

 quotes the following, mostly from western New South Wales. : — p. 15, " Dwarf Box ' 

 (E. bicolor) ; p. 63, " Dwarf Gum " (the first name for Mallee) E. dumosa ; p. 99, " Blue 

 Gum" (E. rostrata); p. 136, "Box" (E. melliodora) ; p. 162, "Bastard Box" (E- 

 bicolar) ; p. 190, " Straight Blue Gums " (E. rostrata) ; 170-197, " Ironbark" (E. crebra) ; 

 170-197, " Stringybark " (E. macrorrhyncha) ; p. 346, " Ked Gum," near Redhead, 

 Newcastle (E. tereticomis). 



In " Hovell's Journal " (Lake George to Port Phillip, 1824-25, Journ. Roy. 

 Aust. Hist. Soc, VII, 358), we have " Blackbutted Gum." 



Bentham (B. Fl. III. 188, 1866) gives a list of vernaculars (39) attached to 104 

 species. 



Christie's paper in Journ. Roy. Soc, N. S. W. (1876) is important because it is 

 the earliest account we have of the vernaculars of New England (N.S.W.) timbers. Some 

 of his specimens are extant. 



No. 20 Bastard Yellow Jacket (E. mdliodora) ; 17 and 18. Ironbark (E. sideroxylon 

 or E. Caleyi) ; 12. White Box (E. albens) ; 1. Spotted Gum (E. tereticomis (?■)); 2, 

 2a, 3a. Red Gum (E. tereticomis) ; 3- Blue Gum (E. Bancrofti) ; 10 and 10a. Yellow 

 Jacket (E. melliodora); 13. Peppermint (glaucous) (E. Stuartiana-— now Black Pepper- 

 mint) ; 14. Box Messmate (E. Andrewsi) ; 4. Brown barked Gum (E. dealbata) (in 

 Sydney Herbarium); 6. Pink-barked Gum (E. rubida); 11. Blackbutt (E. Andreivsi) 

 are also in the Sydney Herbarium. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia ") quotes vernaculars to a limited extent, but does 

 not furnish a list. Frank Cowan (Greensburgh, Penn., U.S.A.), publishes a " Check- 

 list of the Common Names of the Eucalypts or Gum-trees of Australia," pp. 26 (1894), 

 which is a mere compilation of the vernacular names contained in Mueller's work. 



In this district (North and East Gippsland) the bushman's name for E. Stuartiana is " Apple-tree " 

 or " Apple-tree Box." E. Baueriana is also '' Apple-tree " in the vernacular. E. goniocalyx, in the lowland 

 country at least, is ''Spotted Gum" in the language of the bushmen and sawmillers of Gippsland, and the 

 north-eastern district. E. Sieberiana is '' Mountain Ash " throughout eastern Gippsland. E. regnans to the 

 Gippsland bush man is always '' Blackbutt". . . . '' Swamp Gum " is an expressive name often applied 



