BY JULIAN GWYTHER. 
75 
white liaii-s. The legumes at first are straight, linear, 3 to 
6 in. by 2 or 3 lines, ending in a beak and com ex o\er t e 
seeds, constricted between, then becoming tortuous, untU fina y 
they form a curled and matted ball the size of a man a fist, o 
a red-brown colour, and when freshly split o}jen are a brio 
yellow inside. The seeds are fe^v for the length of the po , 
distant, 2| lines long, black and shining, and somewhat depresse 
towards the detached end ; attached by a red funicle, thic enec 
into a cup-shaped aril nearly the size of the seed. In ower 
in March. 
The fruit of young trees is often, if not as 
a r 
'ule, 
abortivi 
re, owing to the action of a gall insect, which, 
Vig its eggs in the racliis or common flower stem, 
causes it to swell to 4 lines thick and fill to repletion with an 
acrid, bitter sap, probably containing saponin. In a month oi 
SO these bodies swell still more, curl up, and assume fantas ic m 
or less globular shapes, 1 to 3 inches across, brittle, an 
green outside, white within; if opened, 
cavities are noticeable, inhabited by a snia w n e _ 
which eventually changes into the pupal^ state, and latt y 
emerges as an imago — a small w^asp-hke jet ac mse ’ 
male, Mender and active, the female extremely obese 
sluggish. In the early winter months these emerge, a u ^ 
ll.e g.ll d.,- b,o.v„ «d .tolvelW. 8* 
S iL iing -vben Ml I” ” bt 
4,g„st, September, .ml Oetober the le«e. of “““j ‘ 
epeelee .re Meeted will. . .m.ll golder, yellow l.rv., 
li e ...ter me.obr.ne., oa.smg the le.f o 
tho.gl. with . togoid br...d . «ll.m.lely .hr. m»et tom. 
blackish brown. 
• 7 •• Mnnk This “ black wattle,” named 
hospital and m the Sandj i i behig rarely found 
seems rather to affect dry aspects in this ^ ^ other 
iotl.e vcirntyotoreeb b.„l.. — ri^SrirTg ber. the 
black wattle, A, 
