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l Name. Eucalyptus, already explained (see Part II, p. 34); 
Baueriana, in honour of Ferdinand Bauer, who collected it in the Port Jackson district 
and whose original specimen is in the Vienna Herbarium, where it was described by 
Schauer. For the botanical investigation of Australia, 1800-1804, Sir Joseph Banks 
sent out Robert Brown as botanist, and Ferdinand Bauer as botanical draughtsman, 
who was a most distinguished worker in that field. He was born at Feldsberg, Austria. 
20th January, 1760, and died at Hietzing, near Vienna, 17th March, 1826. He did a 
large amount of work for Sir Joseph Banks, but must not be confused with his brother 
Franz, even more distinguished as a botanical draughtsman, and who also worked 
much for Sir Joseph Banks. The latter was, by King George the Third's sanction and 
through the liberality of Banks, appointed botanical draughtsman to the Royal Gardens 
at Kew, a post he held for fifty years, and there he died. Full particulars of both the 
Bauers will be found in my " Sir Joseph Banks; the Father of Australia " (1909). 
See also a note by Mr. James Britten on the drawings of plants by Ferdinand 
Bauer in the British Museum in the Journal of Botany for April, 1909, p. 140. 
Vernacular Names. "Blue Box" is the commonest, and almost universal 
name, owing to the peculiar blue cast of the foliage. It is called " Cabbage Box " in 
eastern Gippsland because of the round-headed, dense-foliaged appearance of the 
younger trees. I have heard it called " Apple Box " in the same locality. 
It is said to have been known as " Lignum- vita?," certainly a most inappropriate 
name, for one fails to see what character our timber and Lignum- vitae have in common. 
The name would be much more appropriate to E. polyanthemos Schauer, our Red Box. 
In all my travels I never heard our tree (E. Baueriana) called Lignum-vitae 
except in Sydney. As it does not appear to be widely used, and to have helped to 
cause confusion, it might be dropped. 
Aboriginal Names. George Caley (collector for Sir Joseph Banks, 1800-10) 
gives the name of this species in the Sydney district (Counties of Cumberland and 
Camden) as " Nettaring " Box or " Berryergro." Later on Sir William Macarthur 
gives the name " Boorrayero-Gourroo " as the equivalent of the " True br Yellow Box 
of Camden." It is probable that " Berryergro " and " Boorrayero " are the same 
name, though what Macarthur's " True or Yellow Box of Camden " is, is uncertain, 
as herbarium specimens were not always carefully preserved in the early days. In 
the present work (vol. I, 131), I have identified a specimen as E. hemiphloia F.v.M., and 
the name, as used by the blacks, may prove to be more or less synonymous with the 
.name " Box " as used by the early colonists. The matter may perhaps be cleared up 
as additional herbarium specimens collected by Sir William are discovered. 
Synonyms. 1. E. polyanthemos Benth. non Schauer. R. polyanthemos and 
K. Baueriana were confused both by Bentham and Mueller. 
2. E. FletcJieri R. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S. W'., xxv, 682 (1900) 
