Acacia,] XL. legumtnosji:. 413 



M, S. VTales. Port Jacksou to the Blue Mountains, 7?. Broicn, Sieher, n. 43G, 4C0, 

 aud others; uorthward to Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckier ; New Eiiglaiicl, C. Sivarf. 

 ^ Victoria. Trequent along river bauks, iu valleys, etc., ascending to subalpine eleva- 

 tions, funuing the niaiu underwood in Eucalyptus forests, F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Abundant throughout the island, /. i). Hooker. ' 



S, Australia. Mount Gauibier, F. Mueller, 

 ^ Of this, the Black or Green Wattle of the colonists, the following forms appear at first 

 Mght very distiuctj lut pass into each other by many gradations. 



a. norwalis. Glabrous or the young shoots slightly touieutose-pnbescent. Leafiits long 

 md narrow, usually 3 to 4 lines ; glands numerous along tlie primary rhachis. — Mimosa 

 decurrens, Weudl. Bot. Beob. 5? ; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 61 ; J. deturmn, DC. Prod. ii. 

 410; A,avgulata, Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814, ii. 68; DC. Prod. ii. 468; A. sulc'qm, Sieb. 

 Pi Ess. ; A. adeitophora, Spreng. Syst. iii. 140.— Chictiy about Port Jatkson. 



b. niollh, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 371. Foliage softly tomentose-pubesccul, the indniuentuin 

 assuming a golden-yellow tinge on the young shoots. Lcaflels 2 to 3 lines long, obtuse; 

 gJaiids numerous along the primary rhachis.— -i mollls^ma, Willd. Enuiii. 1053 ; DC. Prod. 

 "•470; Sweet, Fl. i\ustniL t. 12; Hook. f. Fl. Tasrn. i. 11?.— The only form iu Tasmania 

 «nd the most eonimou one in Victoria ; less fiequcnt in the northern districts of K. S. \\ales. 

 Some of Ijcckltr's specimens from Warwick have the numerous glands of this form with the 

 ^eO' small leaflets of the following. 



c. !>aiicig land alum, F. Muell. Pubescent but not so softly so as iu the vnr. mollis, and 

 sometimes almost hirsute, with the same golden-yellow tinge on the young bhoois. Leaflets 

 ^ali, often under 2 lines; glands few, often only under the last 1 or 2 pairs of piniiec.— 

 ^ew Eastland, Clarence and Hastings rivers, JVIoreton Bay, etc.; also between Archer's aud 

 ^1 Kenzie's stations in moist places, Leichhardt, 



^3r.(?) Leichhardtii. More or less hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaflets small, nar- 

 ||?"'; glands few.- Between Archer's station and Birou and towards \\\^^\\\\^^,LeidhardL 

 Afais seems to connect in some measure A. decunem with A. pihescem, but it has tUe nu- 

 ^ei"0"s pintle of the former. 



278. A. dealbata, Lbik, Emwu HorL BeroL 415, A liandsouic tree, 



closely resemhlino; the var. mollis of J. decnrrei^s, nnd to l)e adtled perhaps 

 to the varieties of that sped: s as proposed by F. Mueller, but the branches and 

 roliage are very glaueous or hoary with a minute pubescence not assiiminj>- a 

 p'den tinge ou the voung shoots. Pinna usually J to 20 pairs, leaflets 30 

 Jj^O pairs, linear/crowded, 2 < 



to 3 Hues long i glands usually numerous. 



5'ower.lieads small, in axillary racemes paniculate at the ends of branches, as 

 ^'^^'decurrens. Tod broader, not contracted between the seeds and more 

 pucous._i)c. Prod. ii. 470 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1928 ^ Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 *• ^li; A, irrorota, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. iii. Ul, 



Jf- S. Wales. Port Jackson or Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 446 ; banl^s of the ^lac- 

 S othe',"^ ^f all the streams falling westerly iuto the interior, A. Cunnxf^yham, Fra.er, 



Victoria. Mostly on river banks or in valleys, flowering usually earlier than A. decur^ 



mollis, F, Mueller, 



3^smama. ' Pon Dalrymple, Derwent river, R. Broirrr ; abundant in the island with 

 ff'f^-e^^^, var. mollis, flowering at the same time, but universally distu^gmshed, J. /). 



J. 



ill?' ^^« ^^^■^^•^'- r^^^ftfe of the colonists, is unhesitatingly united with A . decurrn>.hjY. 

 £ 7' ■ ^^- "°°l<er considers it as .uffideDtb' distinct, although not ^f ^^1. Sn en 

 7» dried specimens. The shape of the pod i. ditltient as far as known, but the spcc.nans 

 ">« several forms of A . decurrens, from many stations, are in flower only. 



. f ^f ■ A. cardiophylla, J. Cmn. ; Benth in Hook. Und. Jo,mi. I 3P5. 

 ^^'^^i shrub ?. pubescent wiU. .l.ort rather rigid hairs, branches terete or ob- 

 "^''^S angled. Pinn^ 12 to 15 pairs, 3 or 4 lines or the terminal ones 



