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It also occurs as a dwarf form (18 inches) in moist, Avot altitudes, near the 
summit of Monga or Sugar Loaf Mountain, near 13 raid wood (T. L. Boorman). 
Dwarf form (2-3 feet) growing on the highest altitudes, Buddawang or 
Balcly Mountain, near Braidwood (J. L. Boorman). It is also on Currockhilly. 
Bega (E. Breakwell). 
Vernacular Name. The normal form of A. lonijifulia is usually called 
Golden Wattle, and as most of the other States have their own special Golden 
Wattles, the name " Sydney Golden Wattle " will be distinctive for this species. 
Aboriginal Names. It is singular that we have no record of the aboriginal 
name for such a conspicuous and widely diffused plant as the typical species. 
Botanical Name. Acacia, already explained (sec Part XV, p. 104) ; 
longifolia, Latin, long-leaved. 
Phyllodes. In Southern New South Wales, Mr. W. Bacuerlcm informed me. 
many years ago that it has been observed that horses and cattle eat the young 
shoots, even when grass is by no means scarce. 
Timber. Timber light, tough, and hard ; sometimes used for tool- 
handles, &c. 
It is of a pale colour, and only available for small objects, for it is too small 
to be called a timber tree. 
Insects. In my " Illustrated Flowering Plants and Ferns," p. 28, will be 
found a preliminary account, based on information supplied by Mr. Froggatt, of 
the insect enemies of this species, which may be suggestive. 
Habitat. The normal form was doubtless originally described from a 
specimen obtained from either the Botany Bay (Banks and Solander) or Port 
Jackson district. 
In the Flora Australiensis it is enumerated from all the States, except Western 
Australia, but this includes all the forms. 
It occurs in the States of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. In 
Victoria, it is found in Gippsland ; in New South Wales, it extends from south to 
north of the State, being confined to the coastal district and table-lands; in Queens- 
land, it is recorded only from south-eastern areas in juxtaposition to the New Smith 
Wales boundary. 
Following are the localities represented in the National Herbarium, Sydney. 
VICTORIA. 
Snowy River (E. E. Pescott). 
Mississippi Creek, near lowpr Tambo River (J.H.M.). 
