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ACACIA LANIGERA. Woo.ty-roppEp 
ACACIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Poryeamia Moneccia. 
( Nat. Ord —Leeuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Flores polygami. Cal. 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, 
nunc libera, nune in corollam 4—5-fidam coalita.. Stam. 
fumero varia, 1O—200. Legumen continuum. D C. 
Specific Character and. Synonyms. 
~ Acdcra* lanigera ; floribus capitatis, capitulis axillaribus, 
geminis, multifloris ; atdpuilis subulatis, herbaceis, mar- 
cescentibus ; phyllodiis lanceolato-faleatis, multiner- 
__ Viis, ramulisque lanatis. aie de 
Acacta lanigera, Cunningham in Field’s Geographical 
Memoirs on New South Wales, 'p. 345. Graham in 
_ Ed. New Phil. Journ. Jan. 1829, p. 385. 
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waid.. 
_ Descr. Shrub erect, aphyllus; branches scarcely angled, 
“rect ; bark brown and wrinkled, on the young shoots 
Woolly. Leafstalks (phyllodia) two and a half inches long, 
four lines broad,) lanceolato-falcate, curved downwards, 
erved, spreading, stiff, dull green, somewhat woolly, 
having one gland towards the base on the upper edge, 
mucronate, mucro rigid, afterwards withering. Stipules 
Small, subulate, withering. Capitula geminate (sometimes 
Solitary at the points of the branches), axillary, globular, 
flowers in each numerous, one spreading to each side ona 
x peduncle, 
Sg. ann Ge eae 
vlan in Greek, (from axafe, to sharpen) applied to some thorny 
