50 EKUCALYPTS CULTIVATED: IN° THE UNITED STAREHS: 
Greek ‘‘ white wood,)” as it is known in parts of Australia, the pros- 
pective difficulty would be obviated. A name concerning which there 
is considerable confusion is **Red Gum.” Probably the species most 
entitled to it is /. rostrata, but both in Australia and America the 
name ** Red Gum” is applied to several additional species for which 
there is no other good popular name. In America the name ‘‘Sugar 
Gum” has been applied to 4. corynocalyx alone, so far as known; and 
the term ‘‘ Manna Gum,” so far as it has been used at all, to_/. wimi- 
nalis alone. £. cornuta, and this species alone, is known here to some 
extent as the ‘** Yate,” and the name ‘* Bloodwood” seems to be applied 
to E. corymbosa only. But few, if any, others of the fifty or more 
species growing in America are yet known widely by any common 
names. 
Consequently, the reader of this publication, and growers of the 
species for some years to come, will have to bear patiently with the 
use of the botanical names of the species. There will be no great 
hardship or inconvenience in doing this, as most of the names are quite 
expressive, referring to some prominent feature of the trees. For 
example, calophylla means “* beautiful leaved;” corzacea means ** leath- 
ery,” referring to the leaves; corynocalyx means ** club-shaped calyx;” 
cornuta means **horned;” dversicolor refers to the diverse colors of 
the two sides of the leaf; globulus refers to the globular seed-cases;_ 
goniocalyx means ‘‘angled calyx;” hemastoma means ‘* bloody or red 
mouthed;” /eucoxylon, ** white wood;” longifolia, ‘‘long leaved;” 
citriodora, ‘citrus odored” (referring in this case to the citrus fruit, 
lemon); meliodora, ‘* honey odored;” mzcrotheca, ‘*small seed-case;” 
obliqua refers to the oblique leaves of the tree; polyanthema, ** many 
flowered;” punctata, ‘‘dotted;” resinifera, ‘* resin-bearing;” robusta 
refers to the robust appearance of the tree; rostrata refers to the ros- 
trate or beaked flower buds; sa/¢gna means ‘* willow wood ;” s7dero- 
phlota means ‘‘iron bark;” s¢deroxylon, ‘iron wood;” tereticornis 
means ‘‘round-horned,” referring to the terete or cylindrical flower 
buds, and viminalis means ‘‘osier willow.” The termination ‘* oides” 
means ‘‘like,” the specific name acmenordes, for example, meaning 
‘‘acmen-like;” botryoides meaning botrys or grape like, (referring 
to the clusters of the seed-cases), and ewgeniovdes meaning ‘* Kugenia- 
like,” referring to Eugenia, a plant genus of Australia. A few spe- 
cific names (and fortunately only a few of those applied to Eucalypts 
generally planted) are Latinized forms of proper names, having been 
assigned by the namer and describer in honor of some botanical 
worker. For example, Hucalyptus gunnii is the Latin for **Gunn’s 
Eucalypt;” and the name stwartiana was assigned in honor of a col- 
lector named Stuart. Hucalyptus, the name of the genus, means, as 
has been stated, ‘* well concealed,” referring to the complete manner 
in which the essential organs of the flower are covered. 
