512 J. H. MAIDEN, 
2. The remainder of the New South Wales specimens 
quoted by him, and also the Victorian ones from Sealer’s 
Cove (the collector should be Walter, and not Walters), 
These all belong to E. Sieberiana F.v.M., one of the 
trees called Mountain Ash. 
3. The South Australian specimens, which are FE. vitrea. 
R. T. Baker, as I shall show at p. 517. 
In Spicer’s “Handbook of the Plants of Tasmania,”’ p. 
149 (1878) we have “‘Hucalyptus sp. Ironbark, George’s 
Bay. (Perhaps identical with E. virgata Sieb.)’’ 
Then Mueller (‘‘ Eucalyptographia’’ Decade 2, 1880) 
describes his E, Sieberiana to include Spicer’s plant, and 
gives H. virgataasasynonym. Like Bentham he includes 
three species, and the same three, for his Lake Bonney and 
other South Australian species are E. vitrea, while he 
takes the ‘““Yowut”’ or Mountain Ash as his type. 
EHrroneously assuming that the name H. virgata is “very 
misleading, because only under very exceptional circum- 
stances (he has, as ‘exceptional circumstances’ probably 
the South Australian specimens in his mind’s eye), is this 
usually tall timber tree reduced to a virgate and twiggy 
state,’’ he took the high handed step, not unfamiliar to him, 
of suppressing one properly constituted botanical name and 
substituting another. 
He subsequently, however, considered EH. virgata to be a 
synonym of H. stricta Sieb., which is not in accordance 
with fact. See Decade 10, ‘“‘Eucalyptographia,’”’ (1884). 
K. virgata as a specific name was, however, ignored by 
Mueller until the publication of the second Census in 1889, 
in which also H. stricta appears. 
If we again turn to Decade 10, we find under H. stricta, 
both H. virgata and EF. Luehmanniana F.v.M. appearing as 
synonyms of HE. stricta, in the second page of the text “the 
