62 WATTLES AND WATTLE-BARKS. 



44. (d) . Acacia decurrens, var. pauciglandulosa. 



A " GKEEN WATTLE." 



Yar. pauciglandulosa (B) (2). 



LOCALITIES. 



2Vei0 South Wales. New England, Clarence and Hastings Rivers (B), 

 Bateman's Bay, Bolivia,, Hunter Biver, Port Stephens, Tenterfield. 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, &c. ; also between Archer's and M'Kenzies' 

 stations, in moist places ; Leichhardt (B) ; Coast, extra-tropical ; Queensland 

 (2) ; Tewantin. 



A poor, thin, too-early stripped specimen from Tewantin, Queensland, 

 stripped in July and analysed in September, gave 22'1 per cent, of tannic 

 acid and 41 '6 per cent, of extract. 



One from Port Stephens, New South "Wales, stripped in December, yielded 

 3175 per cent, of tannic acid and 5T55 per cent, of extract. 



A third sample from Bateman's Bay, New South "Wales, stripped in 

 February from trees 30 feet high and up to 15 inches in diameter, gave the 

 result of 27 per cent, of tannic acid and 53'45 per cent, of extract. 



CULTURAL NOTES. 



The following notes are, as a rule, directly based upon observation with the 

 inollis variety of Acacia decurrens, but more or less applicable to all varieties 

 of decurrens. 



Mr. Evan Erancis writes : " In a garden in Bega, a few years ago, I 

 sowed seeds of black wattle on September 1st, and on the 1st January, 

 following, plants were measured 11 and 12 feet high: this, for four months, 

 was enormous growth." 



Eollowing is an account by a New Zealand correspondent (Waikato, 

 Auckland), of his experience in regard to this variety, which may be useful 

 for the guidance of others in similar localities : 



" I have about 5 or 6 acres of mollissima. I got the seed from Tasmania. 

 They are growing the best of any I have got. They do not make much 

 tap root ; they spread the roots near the surface. They were sown two years 

 ago last month (September), and some of them are 12 feet high, without 

 any shelter. They are the best to remove. I planted an acre with young 

 trees taken out of them twelve months since last March. I took them 

 without any soil, and there is not one dozen in the whole lot that have 

 died ; but I find that after you plant any of the Acacia tribe, they do 2iot 



