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Gramine^ — "^ Bromus madritensis, L.; Distichlis mari- 

 tima, Ra-fin ; * Hordeum murinum, L. 



ACACIAS 



(in alphabetical order). 



A. acinacea, Lindl., 2-3 ft. Kirton Point, Port Lincoln. 



A. ancejJs, R. Br. A coarse round-headed shrub, strag- 

 gly, of 4-5 ft. high. Has large, sweet-scented flowers; seen 

 growing on the limestone only. Point Kirton, Cape Doning- 

 ton, and Port Elliston (R. S. Rogers). 



A. armata, R. Br. Hog Bay (Kangaroo Island), and 

 various other places; very plentiful. Pods viscid, hairy. 



.4. brachybofri/a, Benth. Murray Bridge. 



.4. caJamifoJia, Sweet. A tall bushy shrub in flower at 

 Kirton Point ; also at Port Lincoln in flower and fruit. Mur- 

 ray Bridge in young bud. At Lake Wangary only 2-3 ft. 

 high. Marion Bay, Yorke Peninsula (R. S. Rogers). 



.4. dodoiuefoluxy Willd. A viscid, tall shrub or small 

 tree. Hog Bay (Kangaroo Island), Boston Island, Stamford 

 Hill, and Port Lincoln. 



.4. loi}(jifolia, Willd., Kirton Point. A tall, bushy 

 shrub. 



.4. ?uoufana, Benth. Murray Bridge, neither in flower 

 nor fruit. 



.4. my rf if alia, Willd. Aldgate. 



A. nofahilu, F. v. M. Fowler Bay (R. S. Rogers). 



.4. ijycnantha, Benth. Hog Bay, 10-15 ft., glaucous, 

 and affected with galls. Cape Couedie, Murray Bridge, 

 Memory Cove. 



.4. retinodes, Schl. At Hog Bay (Kangaroo Island), and 

 glaucous. At Aldgate, a medium-sized tree, with sweet- 

 scented flowers, and flourishing in damp situations. The 

 width of the phyllodes varies a good deal. 



.4. retinodes, Schl., var. Gillii (new var. Syn. A. 

 pynunitha, Benth., var. (?) angustifolia, Benth., B. FL, ii., 

 365), Port Lincoln to Marble Range (W. Gill, December, 

 1897). A thin, straggling, wiry shrub of 6 ft. or more, with 

 divaricate angular branches and coriaceous phyllodia, spread- 

 ing often in a right angle or even reflexed. Young branches 

 very angidar, flexuous, frequently in a regular zigzag line. 

 Flower-heads solitary on axillary, rather long peduncles, or 

 racemose by suppression of the leaves, and then in a zigzag 

 line as the branchlets, occasionally exceeding the leaves in 

 length. Flowers, pods, and seeds as in the typical A. reti- 

 nodes. 



