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the large inch and a half long, urn-shaped capsules, of the fol- 

 lowing species. The Flowering Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus ficifolia, 

 has large, showy clusters of flowers with bright red stamens, or 

 in some cultivated varieties, pink, cream or white. It is common- 

 ly a small tree with furrowed grey bark and narrowly ovate 

 leaves. 



Another group of trees from Australia are the Wattles or 

 Acacias of which three or four species are commonly planted as 

 street trees and numerous others as specimen trees on lawns. 

 Two of these are without leaves (botanically) as the dense shade 

 they cast is due to the broad, flat petioles, phyllodia. On seed- 

 ling trees and root shoots the true, twice compound leaves can 

 be found. Sometimes a single shoot shows bipinnate leaves 

 with short round petioles, leaves with longer, flattened petioles, 

 broad petioles with one or two pairs of reduced pinnae at the tip 

 and phyllodia with no leaf blades. The commonest of these 

 Acacias, and one of the most frequently grown of all street trees, 

 is the Blackwood, Acacia melanoxylon, which becomes a large 

 tree with a spreading crown. The phyllodia are 3 or 4 inches 

 long, I to f inches wide. The Water Wattle, A. retinodes, is a 

 smaller tree with narrower slightly longer "leaves." While the 

 Blackwood bears its small, round clusters of creamy flowers in 

 early spring, the water wattle has golden flowers almost all the 

 year. The other wattles commonly planted have small, bipin- 

 nate leaves, bluish green and rather stiff. Bailey's Acacia, A. 

 haileyana, has leaves with two to five pairs of pinnae, each with 

 twenty or more short leaflets crowded together, while the Sil- 

 ver Wattle, A. decurrens var. dealbata, is a larger tree with eight 

 to twenty pairs of pinnae, each of over thirty leaflets. All of 

 these Acacias are covered in spring with very tiny yellow 

 flowers crowded together in little globular heads born in 

 racemes, often compound. Most of the flowers are staminate, 

 but mingled with them there are a few perfect flowers. As with 

 the Eucalypti it is the stamens of the flowers which are noticed, 

 not the petals. 



Another leguminous tree often seen is the Carob or St. John's 

 Bread, Ceratonia siliqua, a native of the Mediterranean region. 

 These trees usually show rounded crowns, partly because of 

 pruning, and have once pinnate leaves of three to five pairs of 

 oval leaflets, an inch or more long, with no terminal leaflet. 



