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J. H. MAIDEN. 



A. In Part X, p. 325 of my Critical Revision, I have 

 stated that, in my opinion, E. siderophloia, Benth. is always 

 rostrate-budded, and that the attempted establishment of 

 a rostrate variety is founded on misapprehension. So far 

 I have seen no evidence that this view is an erroneous one. 



B. There is a good deal of a Grey Ironbark in Queens- 

 land which has a conical operculum and a paler timber than 

 the rostrate-budded Eucalypt above referred to, which has 

 always a deep red timber. 



Bailey deals with these two ironbarks in his Queensland 

 Flora in the following manner : — 



C. E. siderophloia, Benth. var. rostrata. "Large leaved 

 Iron Bark." Wood red, (the italics are mine). About 

 Taylor's Range near Brisbane, (p. 621). 



I look upon this as E. siderophloia, normal form. 



D. E. siderophloia, Benth. "Black Ironbark." Common 

 in the southern portions of the Colony. Wood of a grey 

 colour (the italics are mine) (p. 621). 



I submit that this tree is E. paniculata, Sm. 



E. Then under E. paniculata, Sm., he says " In southern 

 inland localities," (p. 616). This seems to me correct as 

 far as it goes. 



F. Incidentally I may say that E. paniculata, Sm., is 

 referred to as Red Ironbark by Mueller in " Eucalypto- 

 graphia " by a mistake on the alleged authority of the late 

 Rev. Dr. Woolls who, in his own copy of that work (in my 

 possession) cancelled the word "red" and inserted "white." 

 The student of New South Wales Eucalypts knows that to 

 the vast majority of people E. paniculata goes under the 

 name of White or Grey Ironbark, while some people, noting 

 its pink or pale red colour (sometimes deeper in tint, but 

 never as deep a red as E. siderophloia), use the name Red 

 Ironbark, but, compared with a true Red Ironbark the term 

 is very misleading. 



