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5. " He (Rev. Dr. Woolls) again refers to it in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1880, 

 p. 503, as only to be distinguished from E. crebra by having its outer stamens anantherous, 

 although practical men easily distinguish them by their wood and bark." (Quoted by 

 Mr. Baker.) 



This is a reference to Vol. V (1881), and we have, in a continuation of the preceding 

 paper, dealing with the Schizophloise, " E. paniculate/, varies in the colour of the wood 

 from white to red, and, therefore, is sometimes called ' White ' and sometimes ' Red 

 Ironbark,' while on the Blue Mountains the pale variety has the name of ' Brush 

 Ironbark '...., and in dried specimens var. angusti folia is only to be 

 distinguished from E. crebra by having its outer stamens anantherous, although practical 

 men easily distinguish them by their wood and bark." 



Under E. crebra he says : " According to the artificial (Bentham's anthereal) 

 system, E. crebra stands in the same section with E. siderophloia, though, in its general 

 character, it approaches more closely to the narrow-leaved forms of E. paniculata^ 



6. In "The Plants of New South Wales" (1885), at p. 51, we have, under 

 E. paniculata, " There is a narrow-leaved variety of this species very similar to E. crebra, 

 and it can scarcely be distinguished but by the opening of the anthers." 



7. See the paragraph referring to E. paniculata, " There is also a tree .... 

 colour and touch," in Dr. Woolls' letter to me of 26th September, 1888, below. 



8. In " Plants indigenous and naturalised in the neighbourhood of Sydney " 

 (1891), p. 26, we have enumerated " E. crebra F.v.M. ; also E. paniculata Sm. and 

 var. angustifolia." 



The Rev. Dr. Woolls' name has been a good deal quoted in regard to E. paniculata 

 and other Ironbarks. I corresponded with him many times in regard to this very subject, 

 and I even took a house at Burwood, near Sydney, where I lived for some years, in 

 order that I might be near him, and I was in his house scores of times for botanical 

 chats, often illustrated by specimens. We often walked about Burwood, Strathfield, 

 Concord, to examine trees he had studied, while he directed my attention to specific 

 trees at Parramatta, Rossmore (then Cabramatta), Bringelly, Richmond, the Kurrajong, 

 chiefly referred to in his writings, which I visited as directed by him. So that I know 

 fairly well his views on County of Cumberland Ironbarks, at all events during the last 

 few years of his fife. Following are extracts from one of his Burwood letters of 26th 

 September, 1888, referring to E. panicutata : — 



The common names of E. paniculata are White, Pale, Grey, She, Narrow-leaved Ironbark. In 

 some forms of this species the leaves are similar to that of E. crebra, but the anthers are of a different shape 

 and the wood paler in colour. . . . The true Narrow-leaved Ironbark is E. crebra. It occurs between 

 Sydney and the Mountains (Blue) occasionally, but it abounds at the Kurrajong. 



When Sir William Macarthur collected for the Paris Exhibition of 1867 (the New South Wales 

 Catalogue of timbers at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 is a facsimile of that of the London Exhibition of 

 1862, already referred to, J.H.M.), he had nine logs of Ironbark from the Counties of Cumberland and 

 Camden, and I was the person who called his attention to the Red-flowering Ironbark (E. sideroxylon) . 

 He calls E. paniculata White or Pale Ironbark, and says it is the most valuable of all the Ironbarks. I 

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