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characters that it shall be recognised by them, but it is a well-krown and readily distinguished species in 
the forest. At all periods of growth it has a tall, straight trunk, and few terminal branches, never very leafy 
M- umbrageous. In some varieties the young branches have a fine glaucous-purple bloom on them, especially 
in alpine localities ; such is the case with Mr. Gunn's No. 1095, from the banks of Lake St. Clair, where 
it forms a forest on one de of the lake only, to the exclusion of all other timber. Bark flaking off in 
stringy manses, used formerly by the natives for huts, canoes, etc. BranMets slender, pendulous. Leaves 
broader than in most otHer species of this section, 4-7 inches long, ovate at the broad oblique base, thr-n 
lanceolate and taper-ins; to an acuminate point, surface not polished ; nerves diverging. Peduncles, jlotoer 
*nd fruit feo variable, that it is difficult to characterise them ; usually the peduncles are stout, woody, 
as long as the petioles : the flowers very numerous, and forming a capitate head ; thf pedicels stout ; calyx 
turbinate : operculum hemispherical. Capsule woody, gradually or suddenly contracted at the pedicel, 
hphericil or oblong, obconic, with a contracted, not thickened, mouth, and sunk valves. As in the other 
species, I have found very great differences in the Bowers and fruits from upper and lower, older and 
younger, slender and stout branches. Flnra of Ta^manin, vol. I, p. 136. 
The plate (XXVIII) accompanying this description, and which has been 
reproduced in its essential details in Plate 191 of the present work, is, in the light 
of later knowledge, quite clear. 
As has already been said, Hooker mixed two closely allied trees, and it is 
better to disentangle the confusion, making it clear what refers to E. obliqua, what 
to E. gigantea, than to perpetuate the confusion by permitting botanists to continue 
to assume that one is a synonym of the other, and to ignore Fitch's beautiful 
plate in Hooker's work. 
Neither Hooker's original description nor his amended one in Flora 
Tasmania applies exclusively to E. obliqua or E. gigantea. There is more to go 
upon in the Flora Tasmania. 
First, we have Gunn's specimens Nos. 1095, 1104, 1106, 1965, 1966, which 
are as follow : 
1095 is E. obliqua. Some of the material under this number may be 
E. gig an tea. 
1104 is E. obliqua. 
1104 (second specimen) is E. gigantea. 
1106 is E. obliqua. 
1965 is E. gigantea. 
1966 is E. gigantea. 
I have re-examined the above specimens, with some additional material ; 
I had previously examined them for my Critical Revision Eucal., i, 178. 
The glaucousness is by far the commoner in E. gigantea, but it occurs 
also in E. obliqua. 
Then as to the use of the terms " Stringybark " and " Stringybark Gum," 
as applied by Hooker, E. giyantea is often known as " Stringybark," although it is 
more frequently applied to E. obliqua. Indeed, perhaps the commonest name for 
the former is " Gum-topped .Stringybark," the branches being more or less smooth. 
The two trees often carry the same vernaculars, especially when not fully grown. 
