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branches hanging gracefully like a weeping willow ; though 

 it will also make a handsome plant in a small pot. The 

 phyllodes are linear, dark green, and are scattered or whorled. 

 The flowers are produced in long spikes, and are pale yellow 

 in colour. It is the A. setigera of some collections. Native 

 of Tasmania. 



A. verticillata. — A spreading shrub of prickly aspect, some- 

 what resembling A. Riceana, yet very distinct. It has the 

 phyllodes of linear-subulate form, and collected in whorls 

 on the branches, while the pale yellow flowers are produced 

 in dense cylindrical axillary spikes. It is a native of Tas- 

 mania and Victoria. 



A. vestita. — This beautiful species has the phyllodes 

 obliquely ovate-elliptic, and more or less falcate, undulate, 

 and softly villous. The globular heads of flowers are pro- 

 duced in racemes, which are collected into leafy panicles, 

 and are very showy. Native of New South Wales. 



A. viscidula. — A pubescent viscid shrub, having the phyl- 

 lodes entire, dark green, linear-oblong, and hooked at the 

 point. The flowers, which are golden yellow, are produced 

 abundantly in globular or ovoid heads, in the months of 

 March and April. Native of New South Wales. 



ACKOPHYLLUM. 



A. venosum. — This is the only species of a genus belonging 

 to the order Cunoniacem, which is by many modern botanists 

 reduced to a tribe of the Sax'fragacea;, and is not remarkable 

 for comprising plants of any great degree of merit in a 

 horticultural point of view. The present plant indeed cannot 

 lay claim to any striking beauty in its individual flowers, but 

 in the mass they are very handsome. The best time for 

 repotting is about the end of February. The soil should be 



