Range - Setis

XLVI. E. acacioides A. Cunn.
Syn. E. viridis R. T. Baker in part.
I have received specimens of the above from the British Museum (through Dr. A.
B. Rendle, F.R.S.) “near Peele's Range, N.S.W. (Oxley's 1st Exped., 1817), No.
203.” Two of them were inadvertently labelled E. stricta by the British Museum.
Peele's Range is in the neighbourhood of Rankin's Springs, 50 miles westerly of
Wyalong, and was first named by Oxley (p. 45). The “Euryalean” brush, near the
Range, was named at p. 50. “Mr. Cunningham went up Peele's Range in search of
plants and found a few new ones” (p. 66). Peele's Range is different from Peel's
Range, Liverpool Plains.
Allan Cunningham (Barron Field's Geog. Mem., p. 350) named one of his Blue
Mountain plants E. microphylla, and he cannot be held responsible for the act of
someone who subsequently mislabelled it E. acacioides in the Hookerian herbarium
in the year 1835. His E. acacioides was subsequently named E. viridis by Mr.
Baker. I have already pointed out that that gentleman first amply described the plant
as E. viridis, but I have no power to suppress E. acacioides.