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Leaves. — Attention is drawn to the great length and narrowness of the 

 leaflets in this variety. 



Flowers. — It has been thought that the period of flowering affords an 

 infallible guide to the discrimination of at least two varieties, e.g., normalis, 

 & winter, and mollis, a summer flowerer. Under each variety will be given 

 notes as to the months of flowering of some specimens in the National 

 Herbarium, Sydney. The present list is of var. normalis, and other 

 varieties will be dealt with separately. It will be seen that the time of 

 flowering is not an absolute criterion as to the variety. Knowledge of the 

 flowering period is, - however, often useful to people who have devoted 

 particular attention to the wattles of a district. Sometimes the same tree 

 flowers twice in a season, and the period of flowering is affected by climatic 

 influences of a particular district, and a x>articular season. 



Bark. — A not very good specimen from Campbelltown, stripped in 

 August, yielded 31-5 per cent, of tannic acid, and 57-35 per cent, of extract. 

 A specimen from Eyde, near Sydney, yielded 32-33 per cent, of tannic acid, 

 and 48-74 per cent, of extract. 



Timber. — Of pale colour, more or less bro-wn in the centre. Only useful 

 for fuel, for which purpose it is appreciated for bakers' ovens. 



Size. — A smaU or medium sized tree, with a diameter of, say, 9 inches, 

 and a height of 25 to 30 feet. 



Habitat. — Apparently confined to New South Wales, and restricted to the 

 ■eastern portion of it. 



It is a coast and coast mountain variety, occurring chiefly about Port 

 Jackson, pampbellto-Wn, Picton and Bargo Brush, Berrima to WoUondiUy, 

 to Goulburn, and Taralga. 



Its southernmost locality in the National Herbarium is Bateman's Bay, 

 l)ut I have no doubt it extends further. 



I do not think I have seen it north of Port Jackson. 



2. Variety mollis, Lindl. 



This is a sweet-scented, almost overpoweringly-scented forroi, and it 

 flowers in the summer or early summer. It is the form which yields the 

 fcest tan-bark. At the same time it passes imperceptibly into other forms, 

 ■and I advise landowners ndt only to have a botanical examination of their 

 wattles, but also to have a chemical examination of their barks. 



Botanical Name. — Mollis, Latin, soft, in reference t6 the foliage. 



Vernacvlar Names. — Sometimes called " Black Wattle " in New South 

 ■iWales, and commonly so called in Victoria and Tasmania, but usually 

 called " Green Wattle " in New South Wales, and occasionally " Silver 

 Wattle." The common Green Wattle of the older colonists. 



