FOREIGN NOTICES. 



fifteen inches in the course of a year, and are covered with flowers from the apex to the com- 

 mencement of the season's growth. Peduncle J inch long; but its phyllodes are almost hid by 

 its profusion of flowers. Altogether a pretty plant. 



A. paradoxa, although of straggling growth, is suitable for pot culture, standing the knife well; 

 phyllodes one-half inch in length, very wavy, unequal sided ; situated very closely together along 

 the stem, furni^heo with two sharp spines at the base of each, rendering the plant Very prickly 

 by their slitfeniiig as they grow old. Flowers globular, of a bright yellow, produced veiy plen- 

 tifully. Peduncles the same length as the phyllodes. 



A. riccana — Tins forms a magnificent plant for a large conservatory, towering to the height oi 

 some twenty-five feet, and producing long pendulous branches hung their whole length, as it 

 were, Avith numberless bunches of flowers. The latter are sessile, arranged upon a peduncle of 

 from 2|- to 3 inches long. The phyllodes are 3-5ths inch long — linear, stiff, and nearly as sharp 

 as needles when they get old. This plant is capable of being trained into whatever shape you 

 may require it. It al^o bears the knife extremely well, and is a most abundant flowerer. 



A. rotund'iflora forms a loose spreading shrub, of about three feet high, and as much in diame- 

 ter; it is most suitable for pot?. Phyllodes one-half inch in length, somewhat rotundate, rather 

 pubescent, and deep green ; flowers globular, bright orange yellow, solitary, sometimes in ra- 

 cemes of two to four heads; jieduncle f inch long. This is by no means a plant of fine habit 

 when allowed to assume its wild form ; but with judicious pruning, and by training tastefully 

 upon a balloon-shaped trellis, allowing the shoots to hang gracefully from the top, its appearance 

 is greatly improved, and when in flower it forms a worthy inmate of our greenhouses. 



A. verlicillata. — This is one of the most interesting, and, at the same time, most beautifid and 

 conspicuous, of Acacias, and well worthy of a prominent position either on the greenhouse stage, 

 conservatory shelves, or in the borders, where its graceful habit must render it a favorite. Its 

 phyllodes, as its name implies, are arranged in a verticillate manner, although in broken whorls 

 of about 1 5th inch apart; the phyllodes are about 3-lOths inch in length, linear, stiff", and very 

 sharp pointed. Its flower heads are about an inch in length, of an oblong shape, and seated upon 

 a peduncle of about 3-lOths inch long; in some cases they appear singly, in others four or five 

 flower heads are so arranged as to appear verticillate. Nothing is better than to allow this spe- 

 cies to take its own natural habit, for the use of the knife or ligatures would not improve it. 



The following alphabetical li-<t will show at a glance the time of flowering, form of flower, 

 &c., of the various sorts just described : 



Name. 



Acacia armata 



" alata 



" biflora 



" cochlearis 



" celaslrifolia 



" cygnorum 



" cyanophj lla 



" Drununotidi 



" di'pcndens 



" ilill'usa , 



" granfiis 



" ixiophylla 



" lineata 



" loniriflora major 



" l(i))liantha 



" mucronata 



" nii;ricans 



" pubescens 



" pulcliella 



" pentadeoia 



" pricraorsa 



" paradoxa 



" Kiceana 



" rotundifolia 



verlicillata 



/. A. Beckman, in Gardfineri Chronicle. 



