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Propagation. — I have already referred to its rapid growth, in India, and 

 to its cultivation in Southern Europe. The following unpublished notes 

 were written some years ago, and give some idea of the appreciation it 

 receives in the Northern Hemisphere: — 



It appears to be one of the hardiest of the genus, as it is cue of the most 

 ornamental. At Bayonne, in the Lower Pyrenees, Madame Leon made a con- 

 siderable plantation of it a few years ago which has now developed into a 

 charming miniature forest. Even as far north as Nantes it flourishes and 

 resists ordinary winters. In very severe winters it is sometimes killed down 

 to the ground, but it throws up again with increased vigour. The foregoing 

 particulars we glean from the organ of the Central Horticultural Society of 

 France, and we have no doubt that this Acacia will prove equally as hardy 

 in the West of England. 



Its white foliage contrasts well with the somibre foliage of many Aus- 

 tralian trees, and I certainly think it is worthy of more extensive cultivation 

 for ornamental purposes. We take far greater pains over less meritorious 

 exotics. 



6. Variety lanigera, Maiden, in "Wattles and Wattle-barks," 3rd Edition, 



1906, p. 41. 



A small tree or tall shrub, characterised by every part of it — old and 

 young leaflets, rhachises and twigs, and pods — ^being densely covered with a 

 •white or brown indument. 



It may be described as an " exaggerated " form of var. dealbata, but so 

 much more woolly-hairy than var. dealbata as to be worthy of some designa- 

 tion. 



Leaflets about twenty and over, coarser than those of var. dedlhata, the 

 variety it most closely resembles. Harvey Range, J. L. Boorman, 1905 

 (type). Closely allied forms from Gloucester Buckets, E. Betcbe, 1882; 

 J.H.M., 189Y; Parkes Water Supply, J.H.M:, 189Y. 



'This remarkable form will be better understood on reference to the Plate. 

 It seems to me the handsomest variety of the species, and worthy of cultiva- 

 tion for ornamental purposes. It is too rare to be of commercial importance. 

 It grows in dry localities. 



EXPLANATION OP PLATE 87. 



A. decurrcns var. normali.t. a — a. 



„ , var. Leiohliardtii, n — k. 



(N.B. — Var. Lcirlbhwrdtii is closest to var. pauciglunclnlosa, and has been put 

 on Plate 87 as a matter of convenience.) 



Variety nnrmalis. 



A. Flowering branch. Note the compound, bipinnnte leaf. Pinna, 



plural pinniB (Latin a feather), is a primary division of a pinnate 

 leaf. Its leaflets are sometimes themselves pinnate, as in this 

 case. 



B. Portion of leaf (pinna), much magnified, showing the individual 



pinnules or leaflets, or secondary pinnre. 



Note the glands in a. and n. They vary a good deal in A. 

 decurrens, and the glands depicted in the various drawings in 

 Plates 87 and 88, while taken from average specimens, must not 

 be looked upon as absolute as regards either number or position, 

 c. An individual bud ri'uioved from a head of fluwera. , 



