330 NOTES ON NATIVE FLORA OF NEW SOUTH WALES, VII., 



Conifers : Callitris coJcarata R.Br.(Black or Mountain Pine). 



LiLiACE^ : Dianella r^t'o??tto R.Br. (?)( Wild Flax). 



GRAMiNEiE : Danthonia j^enicillata F.v.M., var. fallida. 



FiLiCES : Pteris aquilina L. (Bracken). 



A very narrow-leaved form of Daviesia corymhosa was noticed, 

 and found to be constant throughout the district as well as on 

 Kydra Mountain; and, when compared with the typical broad- 

 leaved form as seen near Nimitybelle and elsewhere, was certainly 

 suggestive of being a separate and smaller species. This form 

 occurs in other parts of this State. 



Pultencea microphylla was found as an absolutely prostrate 

 plant, quite dissimilar in habit from the erect little shrubs 

 collected at Gilgandra and Scone, and which have been referred 

 to by Messrs. Maiden and Betche in these Proceedings for 1908 

 (p.310) as connecting links between P. cinerascens Maiden and 

 Betche, and P. microphylla. 



Acacia ruhida was distributed throughout the area, and here, 

 as elsewhere, was noticed to retain its juvenile leaflets mingled 

 with the phyllodia, until the plant was nearl}^ full-grown. It is 

 not uncommon to find this feature in very young plants of many 

 Acacias, but few retain the two forms of foliage so long as A. 

 ruhida. A young plant of A. melanoxijlon, when growing luxu- 

 riantly in sheltered situations, will sometimes speedily reach 

 several feet before showing any phyllodia, after which it presents 

 a remarkable a[)pearance v»ith its dimorphic foliage, until finally 

 reaching the stage when none of the leaflets remain. 



Considerable interest attaches to the discovery of Acacia 

 Dawsoni in the Cooma district, viz., at about 5 miles northerly 

 from Cooma and a few hundred yards south of the bridge over 

 the Murrumbidgee River, on gneiss-formation; also on the roads 

 from Cooma to Cowra Creek and to Macanally on Silurian slate. 

 In each case the shrubs are about 4 feet high, and somewhat 

 spreading. Prior to 1907, this species was recorded oul}' from 

 Rylstone (type-locality) and Abercroiubie, but in that year it 

 was found by me at Emmaville, and in 1908 at Cooma, thus 

 extending its range almost through the entire length of the State, 



