32 WATTLES AND WATTLE-BARKS. 



3. Acacia tetragonophylla, P. v. M., B.FL, ii, 330. 



"DEAD FINISH." 



A sample of this bark from Tarella, Wilcannia, N.S.W., from a tree whose 

 height was 10 to 12 feet and diameter 6 to 8 inches, was examined by 

 the writer (Proc. R.S., N.S.W., 1888, p. 267), and gave 5'59 per cent, of 

 tannic acid, and 14'96 per cent, of extract. It was collected August, 1887, and 

 analysed August, 1888. This is one of the usual dry-country wattle barks, 

 consisting almost entirely of bundles of fibre, even the hoary outside bark 

 being more or less readily separable into long ribbons. 



A western and desert species occurring in New South Wales, Yictoria, 

 South Australia, and Queensland, not found in the coast districts, nor, I 

 believe, in the mountain ranges. Its chief habitat is the country west of the 

 Darling. 



4. Acacia rigens, A. Cunii., B.EL, ii, 337. 



" NEALIE," or " Needle Bush." 



Bark from an old tree, from near Hay, New South Wales, yielded the 

 author 6'26 per cent, of tannic acid and 10*05 per cent, of extract. (Proc. 

 . 88.) 



It consists of but little else than layers of fibre. A dry-country wattle. 

 South Australia, Yictoria, and New South Wales. 



5. Acacia calamifolia, Sweet, BJFL, ii, 339. 



" WILLOW" or " BROOM WATTLE." " Wallowa" of the aboriginals of Lake Hind- 

 marsh Station (Victoria). 



A sample of bark in the Technological Museum, received in the year 

 1883, was stated to contain 20*63 per cent, of tannic acid, according to an 

 analysis by Mr. Thomas, of Adelaide. It was labelled " A. calamifolia." I 

 analysed this bark, which came from the Murray Flat Eanges, South 

 Australia, and found it to contain 36 06 per cent, of tannic acid, yielding no 

 less than 63*1 per cent, of extract. It is nearly ft of an inch thick, solid, 

 smooth, containing very little fibre, and hardly to be distinguished from 

 A. pycnantha bark. I received it, however, under the name by which I now 

 describe it, and the tree is not personally known to me. 



