3$ WATTLES AND WATTLE-BARKS. 



The following notes from a Southern correspondent who forwarded me 

 some barks, include some additional localities : 



" No. 1. Local name Hickory or Black-wattle, taken from a tree 40 feet in 

 height, 16 inches in diameter, growing plentifully on ridges and high lands 

 in the parishes Wagonga, Noorooma, Tilba, Bodalla, and neighbourhood, 

 county of Dampier, for miles round the base of Mount Dromedary, soil 

 generally light on slate formation. 



" No. 2. Local name Broad-leaved Hickory, though not so plentiful as 

 No. 1, yet in abundance, more particularly about Milton, Bermagui, Tilba 

 Tilba, Keedy Creek, Cobargo, and along Tuross River. It is not uncommon 

 to see trees 2 feet in diameter, that from which No. 2 specimen was taken, 

 measured 20 feet in height and 12 inches in diameter." 



If possible, no tree under a foot in diameter should be stripped ; imma- 

 ture trees give little bark, w^hich contains comparatively little tannic acid. 

 To strip mountain hickory saplings is simply killing the goose with the 

 golden eggs. It is not surprising that so large a tree yields rather a thick 

 bark. A certain specimen is over five-eighths of an inch thick, is rugged, 

 something like an ironbark, only more stringy. 



11. Acacia retinodes, Sclilect., B.FL, ii, 362. 



Said to yield a good tan bark. South Australia and Victoria. 

 12. Acacia neriifolia, A. Cunn., B.EL, ii, 363. 



A ''BLACK WATTLE." 



The following analysis of the bark is given by the Queensland Commis- 

 sioners, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886 : Tannin, 13 - 91 per cent.; 

 extract, 17'87 per cent. (sic). 



New South Wales and Queensland. On river banks and mountains in the 

 coast districts from the Clyde Eiver, in Southern New South Wales, to South 

 Queensland. 



13. Acacia saligna, Wendl., B.EL, ii, 364. 



11 WEEPING WATTLE." 



In South-west Australia it is the principal source of tan bark, and is said 

 to contain nearly 30 per cent, of tannic acid. It is a small tree, common in 

 most parts of extra-tropical West Australia, at least towards the coast. 

 (Mueller.) 



