NOTES ON ACACIA. 495 



b. Acacia leptopetala Benth. (Syn. A.Murrayana F.v.M.) 



I concur in Bentham's observation that A. Murrayana 

 differs "from A. leptopetala in little besides the long narrow 

 phyllodia." 



This dry country wattle has now been found in a number 

 of New South Wales localities. Mr. W. A. W. de Beuzeville, 

 in recently sending it from Wambaduli, Pilliga, remarks 

 44 the bark is rather peculiar, being of a mealy white appear- 

 ance; the only other Acacia that I have seen with a bark 

 at all similar is A. spectabilis, I may remark that the 

 Western Australian plants of A. leptopetala are similarly 

 glaucous. 



c. Acacia linearis Sims. 



Hooker, in recording it 1 from Tasmania, says 44 This 

 appears to be a very rare Tasmanian plant, and has never 

 been found in fruit. Mr. Gunn, who alone has gathered it, 

 says that he has seen a very few bushes of it, which have 

 since been burnt down ; and as the place where they grew 

 has been fenced in, and turned to a pasturage, it is probable 

 that it will become extinct there." 



I have a specimen of Gunn's No. 677, which is the plant 

 referred to by Hooker; it is labelled 44 C.Hd" (Circular 

 Head) and was collected in the year 1837. I have care- 

 fully examined this specimen and do not see in what detail 

 it differs from A. suaveolens Willd., and recommend that 

 Hooker's record of A. linearis for Tasmania be withdrawn. 



Mr. L. Rodway records 2 A. linearis from George's Bay, 

 Tasmania, and also makes the interesting suggestion that 

 it constitutes a variety (linearis), of A. mucronata Willd. 

 I have dealt with A. mucronata in Part 57 of my 44 Forest 

 Flora of New South Wales" now in the press. 



i "Flora of Tasmania/' i, p. 109. 3 "The Tasmanian Flora/' p. 42. 



