by JULIAN GWYTHBR. 
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only 25 miles from Warwick. Large tracts of this 
species may be observed close around the Warwick town- 
ship, Upper Freestone Creek, portions of Killarney, and 
scantily at Gladfield, Dalrymple Creek, and in fact in nearly 
every 
locality, though the tree is somewhat stunted on the 
dry sandy ridges. Its usual dimensions here in five or 
six years’ growth are 25 or BO feet high and 6 to 
Sin, through. The bark is a vivid green and very smooth, 
becoming dark and rugged on old boles, and usually very com- 
pact, yielding a small degree of fibre. It is the second in quality 
as a tannin producer, it having yielded from 15 to 36 per cent, of 
acid and over 60 percent, extract. These analyses are principally 
from New South Wales and Victoria bark ; the quality appears to 
become mferior as we advance northwards, though perhaps the 
Queensland hot dry-country barks have not been sufficiently 
tested. The variety here is entirely “ ’’—the 
A. molKsmm of Miieller’s “ Dichotomous Key.’’^ It has 
been called by the local name “ Black Wattle in ew 
South Wales and often in Victoria and Tasmania ; 
usually it passes everywhere under the name of 
Wattle ” or “ Silver Wattle.” Native names are “ Wat-tah, 
of Cumberland and Camden, New South Wales; “ Garrong, o 
portions of Victoria, and “ Warraworup,” of Coranderrk, Vicboi’ia- 
It is widely distributed through the south of South Australia, ias- 
Mania, Victoria, Inner Southern Queensland an mos o ex 
South Wales. It has also been known in this locality as tie 
"Golden Wattle,” owing probably to the clear yellow inge 
assumed by it at a certain season of the year when deve oping s 
young shoots. The inflorescence is a very pale yellov, 
dower heads globular about 4 lines in diameter. The ' 
exeeedinglyfeatheryin appearance; the leaf varyingfrom i . 
in. long and 2 in. or 8 in. broad, with multitudinous leaflets, is 
endowed with a certain amount of sensitiveness vLen inclmd as 
intheMimosmandthe mimosa-leaved ^ 
the district, the latter among the ranges. But ^ 
been written and said about this species by 
who have made a study of it from a commercial PO- 
that it would be mere waste of time 
that directly concerned with its growth about heie. . 
