Botanical notes

In November, 1886, Mr. T. B. Moore drew our attention to what he considered a new Eucalypt that he had found growing on the sub-alpine range between New Norfolk and the Huon district. He described it, and named it after our greatly esteemed friend Baron Von Mueller.<br>The Baron had already had an opportunity of examining the plant, having found it some years previously towards the summit of Mount Field east. He did not consider it distinct, but thought it probably a lowland form, of E. vernicosa, H. The tree has probably a wide sub-alpine distribution in south-western Tasmania, as besides meeting with it in quantity in both localities named, I have found it extensively dispersed round the southern slope of Mount Wellington at about 2,000ft. elevation, where it can be seen in quantity in the region of the Springs Track to the Two Bridges and Forked Creek Bivulets, where it forms the principal timber.<br>I also have an undoubted specimen of this plant, but with rather different opercula, gathered by Mr. Wm. Fitzgerald on Mount Giekie.<br>The tree has probably been overlooked in many localities.<br>It grows with and is very like E. urnigera, H, with which I have no doubt it has been confounded. The two trees can hardly be distinguished when seen together, and with E. muelleri the branches are very tough, so that it is most unusual to pick up broken limbs with inflorescence. With E. urnigera on the contrary the wood is brittle, so that at this time of the year the ground in such a forest would be comparatively strewn with its flowers.