478 J. H. MAIDEN. 



I received a piece of the original from the late Mr. J. G. 

 Luehmann of the Melbourne Herbarium, in 1898, labelled, 

 "Acacia crassiuscula Benth. non Wendl. (A. lunata Sieb. 

 Mueller's addition). Banks of the Nepean River, Robert 

 Brown (1802-4)." 



I carried a portion in my pocket book for years, but 

 failed to match it in my wanderings. It is in flower only. 

 On a special occasion (September 1906) Mr. R. H. Cambage 

 and I accepted the hospitality of the Hawkesbury Agricul- 

 tural College, got a rowing boat, searched the banks of the 

 Nepean in the vicinity, and also of the Grose River (which 

 we know Robert Brown ascended), but could not find the 

 wattle. Later on (1909) Mr. Cambage collected the plant 

 at Yerranderie, but it was only recently that I identified 

 it with Brown's plant, and it proves to be new. Speci- 

 mens of Bentham's further record of " barren brushy hills 

 of the Blue Mountains " (Cunningham and Fraser) I have 

 not seen, but I find I collected the wattle at Mount Vic- 

 toria in December, 1896. I do not remember the precise 

 part of Mount Victoria, but it will give a clue as to where 

 Cunningham and Fraser found it. 



3. Tasmania — Fliuders' Island, Bass' Straits (J.D.Hooker). 



Bentham follows Hooker (Flora of Tasmania, p. 108) in 

 this matter. Loc. cit., Hooker quotes Guun's 1957 for A. 

 crassiuscula, and I have a specimen before me. It is 

 Joseph Milligan's No. 581 and was collected 6th March, 

 1845, and is labelled "Flinders' Island at Establishment." 

 What this locality means, may be seen from my notes on 

 Dr. Milligan's career in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. for 1909, p. 

 22. He superintended the removal of the aborigines from 

 Flinders' Island to Oyster Cove in 1848. 



It is a poor specimen, and I have a better one, in bud 

 only, without fruit, from Archer's Herbarium. The material 

 may be described as follows, and it slightly supplements 



