December, 1880.1 
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EUCALYPTUS GALLS. 
BY R. McLACHLAN, F.R.S., <fcc. 
I am indebted to Dr. M. T. Masters, F.B.S., editor of the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, for the opportunity of describing and figuring 
two mo3t remarkable forms of Galls on Eucalypti from Australia. 
The singular mass of galls, of which a slightly enlarged figure is 
given below, was sent from the Phytologic Museum of Melbourne, 
Australia, to Dr. Masters, by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. These 
galls were found by Mr. Tepper'on Eucalyptus gracilis at Spencer’s 
Gulf, South Australia. The branched twig before me (only a portion 
of which is figured) bears several hundred galls, thickly clustered, and 
