GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL 

 MEMORANDA. 



Acacia maceadenia. Bentham. A fine New 

 Holland greenhouse bush, with hard green smooth curved 

 phyllodes eight or nine inches long, and innumerable zig-zag- 

 spikes of yellow heads. Flowers in March. (Pig. 28.) 



An unknown Correspondent signing himself T. D., Pembroke, sent 

 us living specimens of this, intimating that it had been raised from 

 .South Australian seeds received from Drummond in 1847. It is 

 certainly the same plant as was found by Sir Thomas Mitchell in 

 his journey to the Victoria River, ^ occupying the beds of rivers, and 



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