ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXill. 
Vol. xxxvi (1911), 158, I recorded the sucker producing 
habit of Acacia pugioniformis, Wendl. I have also noted 
that Acacia salicina, Lindl., produces suckers very freely 
under cultivation in the Sydney district, as will be seen by 
the specimens herewith exibited. 
Acacia longifolia, Wild.—This species has a very wide 
range, and specimens have been collected in flower during 
the months of May to August in the Sydney district, and 
in September at Hill Top and Bowral. The phyllodes are 
thinner in texture, with a very prominent gland near the 
base, and the pods are much thinner in texture and more 
or less constricted, and produced in abundance. The 
production of an abundance of seed accounts for the free 
cultivation of this latter species, and it is interesting to 
note that the figures quoted by Bentham in Bot. Mag. t. 
1827, 2166; Bot. Reg. t. 362; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 678, are 
all from cultivated plants and agree with the plants com- 
monly known as the “Sydney Golden Wattle,’’ which is 
referrable to A. longifolia. 
In the Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. xxx (1905), p. 213, 
Mr. R. H. CAMBAGE has drawn attention to another species 
of Acacia which produced suckers. In this paper Mr. 
CAMBAGE points out that in trying to ascertain why num- 
bers of young Yarran (Acacia homalophylla) trees grew | 
with one horizontal root instead of a system of lateral 
roots, he discovered that those with the horizontal roots 
were suckers, and were much more plentiful around a ring- 
barked Yarran or where one had been cut down, than 
around a growing tree. In one instance a sucker was 
traced by the root for a distance of twenty-seven feet from 
the parent tree. He infers that probably most of the old 
Yarran trees grew from seedlings, and that suckers have 
become more common since the advent of clearing and 
ringbarking operations. 
