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Bark from Eden, stripped in November, gave 30-25 per cent, of tannic 

 acid, and 51-65 per cent, of extract. 



^A specimen of " Green Wattle-bark," grown at Tombong,' Snowy Eiver, 

 K.S.W., was collected in March, 1889. It was obtained from trees 20 to 30 

 feet high, with diameters 6 to 15 inches, and was grown in granite country. 

 It yielded (April, 1890) 24-63 per cent, of tannic acid, with 45-8 per cent, 

 of extract. This sample is hardly fair to the species. It is rather thin, 

 rugged, covered with lichens, and rather more fibrous than the generality of 

 barks of this variety. In spite of the badly-selected sample, the analysis 

 , shows that it is full of promise. 



Northern Barhs. 



Bark from Booral, stripped in June, yielded 28-52 per cent, of tannic 

 acid, and 56-1 per cent, of extract. A second sample from the same place 

 gave 27-5 per cent, of tannic acid, and 57-1 per cent, of extract. 



A sample from Raymond Terrace, collected in December, gave 33-20 per 

 cent, of tannic acid, and 56-5 per cent, of extract, showing that good barks 

 can come from the north. 



Bark from Gosford, stripped in July, from four-year-old trees, gave 22 

 per cent, of tannic acid, and 46-4 per cent, of extract. 



Habitat. — The only form in Tasmania, and the most common one in 

 iVictoria; less frequent in the northern districts of New South Wales. 



Queensland. — Inland extra-tropical Queensland. 



South Australia. — South of the Murtay Desert, embracing the 90-mile 

 Desert and the Tatiara; Mount Gambler District. 



In New South Wales this variety flourishes best in the colder districts of 

 this State, chiefly on the southern tablelands, but is by no means confined to 

 the colder districts, as the following specimens in the National Herbarium, 

 Sydney, show : — 



Cooma; Mogo, near Moruya, "Green Wattle," the tan-bark; Tallong, 

 GMarulan, Hill Top, National Park, Parramatta (exainined by Bentham), 

 Wahroonga, Sydney. It is apparently not common in northern New South 

 iWales, e.g., Warialda. Pods nearly glabrous, leaflets more spathulate than 

 var. pauciglandulosa and not hairy on the tips; Warialda — More glabrous 

 than the preceding, and further remote from var. pauciglandulosa; Wari- 

 alda — Nearer the pauciglandulosa type, but glands abundant; Inverell — 

 almost entirely glabrous. 



These northern specimens alone show that vars. mollis and pauciglandu- 

 losa jun into each other. 



Out West, the variety becomes more stunted, but otherwise nearly normal, 

 rine, short golden hairs sometimes extend lower than the tips of the 

 branches. Minore, Peak Hill, Condobolin Hill, Coolabah, Nymagee. 



3. Variety pauciglandulosa, F.v.M. 



I do not think that this is a strong variety. It runs in^o vaj-. mollis too 

 ■ much. Typical var. mollis has more spathulate leaflets tlian has var. pauci- 

 glandulosa, and the plant is more angular, and altogether more hairy, and 

 even sometimes scabrous. The fifae leaflets are sometimes tipped with hairs. 



