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For some instances of variation in the size of the juvenile leaves of E. viminalis, 
see my " Critical Revision," Part XXVIII, Plates 118 and 119. 
' The leaves of young seedlings are narrow-lanceolar, with roundish base, sessile, 
opposite or exceptionally ternately verticillar' (an illustration of this is given at the 
left-hand side of the plate)." (" Eucalyptographia," E. viminalis.) 
They are also figured at " Lamina 4 " and " Lamina 5 " in the pamphlet of 
' El Gomero de Mana o Eucalyptus viminalis," by Federico Albert, Seccion de Aguas i 
Bosques, Santiago de Chile (1907). 
Seedlings do not change their linear, opposite character until they attain a height 
of several feet. 
Leaves. The mature leaves are lanceolate and inclined to be narrow. They 
possess a dainty odour which can always be noticed when they are confined in a limited 
space, say on lifting the lid of a herbarium-box of this species, even in the presence of 
a moderate amount of naphthalene. 
The foliage has a dainty ethereal odour, not easily described. (See Grit. Rev. 
xxviii, 169.) 
According to Mr. E. Cheel, in the district of Pakenham, Victoria, the species is 
known as " Sweet Willy," presumably from recognition of this pleasing odour. 
Messrs. Baker and Smith (" Research on the Eucalypts," p. 92) refer to a " var. a" 
of this species having an " almond-like odour." This statement should be examined 
in connection with what has already been said. 
Flowers. Mr. E. A. Coleman, an apiarist of Mount Barker, S.A., said that 
" E. rostrata (Murray red gum) is the best, and E. Ivucoxylon (locally blue gum) a good 
tree, that produces the best honey, being clearer and having a rather better flavour 
than the other. Some eucalypts produce very strong honey. One now blossoming 
in the hills about Adelaide (March), E. viminalis I think it is, produces a strong, dark, 
rank honey, no good for sale. We use it to feed the bees with." 
We want data in regard to the value of each of our Eucalypts to the apiarist. 
We know very little as to the flowering periods of most of our Gums and allied trees in 
different districts. Some flower annually, some biennially, others irregularly, but to 
what extent we do not know. 
Exudation. Besides a reddish-brown astringent kino, this tree exudes, chiefly 
from the leaves, a sugary substance known as Manna, which, however, has been dealt 
with at length at p. 107, Part LXIII, to which my readers are referred. 
Bark. It is a White Gum, often smooth and dazzlingly white, but it has at 
the butt a variable amount of dark, scaly or scaly-fibrous bark. Sometimes the dark- 
coloured portion is tough, and drawn out, forming long ribbons, which extend to the 
branches, and which, rendered supple by rain, if blown by the wind, form pennons or 
streamers nearly at right angles to the trunks. 
