ui!$t fi'iumly have crossed, a ercvk J had Djryseli crossed Mine mcnUlW 

 previously, wFien I can* to the came ronelu. c .ion Buds of Red Gums (ttJ w 

 were i)-pica*l_«* roitrato, -Mr, Higginsun collected for n>c a number of *air.|iks 

 m l<ed Gntm from lTiia arra «p tq Ok* PiUln-RiTcht Paw and amongst these 

 diCte win -one at ic-ast whose apercula were not rostraie but resembled thcae. 

 h\ LVhnhardT's specimen*. Red Gurus H Baroot?, further ssuith, all had 

 ffotrfltc blftjl as far as t examined them 



In 1803, some months before lie arrival of Collins In "Calcutta'' in 

 Ocwber, Governor King had iCili Acting Surveyor-General Grime* win t 

 gardener Jarrjcs Fleming; W ^^4lfc ftnirfd Pori Phillip . to examine the* 

 soil, timber, etc.". Dunne, this ;jere^n nation they discovered the Yarra. ant: 

 Iteming iu hit report concluded that 'The most eligible- place fur 5 Rllfc- 

 ntcfit that J have seen is on the Freshwater River". i.e. the VarCft 

 [A.NZ.A AS Aligns! JQi?- j?tj- /i. rosinun- gtyw on the Yarra. tt u 

 barclly likely That hteunryr collected seed of it which inund its wa> eventually 

 'v.. State 1 



Ida l.ee, in Early Explores in Austraih (Y)2o) has inihlis-hcd Allan 

 Cunninghams Journal, tietwecu April 20 and May \?> 3-917, he travelled 

 iron) Bathuret to Farewell Hill. On April 25 they made lite Lachlan River, 

 probably somewhere rw.11 where Condol.iohn now tuands. lie writes (;> 190) 

 "its hantt$ a.r« very high and clothed with Joity timber ot a apectc< of 

 Eucalyptus, commonly denominated Black-hutted Gum 1 footnote, presumably 

 by the Editor. liiurolyphis piluhitis) , inrlivur.R inward so ss to form in some 

 places a kind of atch. with tlte head:; oi the trees r>f Ihfl saints species- on 

 the opposite hank. This is obviously the ttiver Red Gunu many old trees 

 c*i which havtj a routth dark ban* 10 die trunk-. I?g identification hi the 

 footnote a* Ii. pihtliiris, a coastal species, is an editorial assumption based 

 on Ihc popular name gtvttl lo it by Cunningham, who purely cannot have 

 evanuncd the fnuts. Under the date 27th (April), Cunningham writes, '*I 

 Visited 1lt<: rocky fulls on the left kulk with C, Fraber of the 40th Rtigtij who 

 had been sent i* one of out panv, in order t" torn) a separate collection of 

 ?;eeds and specimen* for Earl Baihurst". Vow Dehnhardl says ihat he 

 received the s»*eti from which he ^.rcw fc. ctvnoidvteitris a* that of li. firr- 

 .<ii 4 tji'(iii whirli is I syiiOnvtn for £. pi! Harris, 3 think llit-refuTe wc can infer, 

 with paosiiTerahle confidence, that the seed came either from Allan Cuiinints- 

 ham or from Chatk? V'cnScr, and that the mother irtc grow ^o»ticvhcK neai 

 Co)%ioholin on the Lachlan. 



T|ten? 1* further e^idi'-i-ee <o ?u£geit ihar Fra*»er collected the seed Ml&s 

 \ T anry Burbidge, whilst at Kew in 1954, kmdly examuied l-)<hnhardt'5 

 C^ulogue, « copy of which is- in the British Mn<.emn (Natural History.). 

 She noteii that te the list ot plants were four Western Australian ones, 

 JUtOtH cWtffl< A. flH/ri <'<]*)■£, DidwilS C&ftldwCH£ atvtt /?(,n^'i-iiJ ^<i(Y»U(> ( 3, "Mt>W 

 m ]827, Charles Frasw, now the Colonial Botamsl, vfiuirc the Swan River 

 in H.W S Success (Captain Jarrtf* Stit'liny)* The shiu culled in at King 

 George Sound pT\ the return journey. If the Western Australian seeds in 

 the Hortus GunalduJeitsis <amc Ooin Frtmer, Uw> WOrtjd ftjw (htm less dian 

 five years In grow and flrw.'eT fff they had flowered wl:en The catalogue was 

 prepared) * Jnwi scenvs r;uhcr slion tor Ihuthsin tuwriifCu' Tlit only otheT 

 \Vesttrn Australian c.ollcctori would he Roherr lirown and Meiuies with 

 Vrmcouv-er 



Mt*\ fJurhid^e w;u pvuzlexl over /• divcrstjolh Bonpl. bcinq one of Iht 

 euuilynts in the e-aMlogue hut this was ^town in Huropv irom seed t.vllectcd 

 hy Baudin's Mxpedition, cvidendy from Kangaroo Island. 



Jf II v>^re possible to ascertain where the teed* went to that Fraser sent 

 w Karl BaihuTst in 1817, die ^rdution tu ihc problem would prohahly Tie 



* S»»" ' Tht vuU of Chj^es Tr^utT 1 to the Sw.in Tivct in Ift'J?, wilh liis 0\>it>iou 

 on the isiiiiibtciiys^ uf i5ic JUiuct iot II sclUcmnu, iojjoiIici w|e|| Boaiptfl i^rfrtl tn* /* 0. 

 Ha> j invbhWjl »»)■ ), G. Ha*, 19U6. Jt«t| Wore iht West Auslruliun N;*f.trj1 H,: , 'f. 

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