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Vernacular Name. The Spreading Coast Wattle, because of its spreading 
scrambling habit which has suggested its use for the arrest of sea sand. 
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PhyllodCS. Sometimes very thick, almost fleshy. Miss Meares collected 
a specimen at "Wollongong an eighth of an inch in thickness. In comparison with 
those of ft/pica, they are short and broad. 
Fruits. The natives of Tasmania used to roast the ripening pods of this 
Wattle, pick out the seeds and eat them (Backhouse). In Tasmania they are 
usually curved, broad and fleshy, with a large fleshy arillus. As we go north along 
the mainland, the pod becomes straighter and thinner. 
Bark. Mr. W. Adam informed me that Sydney fishermen often tan their 
sails and nets with this bark, and are well pleased with it, the articles being pliable 
after use. 
Timber. The tree is quite small, but the wood is white, hard, and tough, 
and is said to be durable. 
Habitat. It is the spreading Coast Wattle and its favourite place is on the 
sandy seashore or along the banks of brackish or salt-water creeks. It extends 
along a very long coast line, occurring not only in many places in Tasmania, but 
also in Kangaroo Island and South Australia, all along the coast of Victoria and 
New South Wales to Southern Queensland. 
In New South Wales it is in the National Herbarium from Twofold Bay ; 
Bermagui ( W. Baeuerlen) ; Gerringong ( W. W. Froggatt) ; Wollongong (C. 
Moore) ; Maroubra Bay, Lady Robinson's Beach, &c., and the Sydney district 
generally ; Ettalong Beach, near Broken Bay. Pod nearly straight, Narara Creek, 
salt-water (A. Murphy) ; Port Macquarie (G. R. Brown). 
Contributions of more northerly specimens would be acceptable. 
(3) Variety prostrata, C. Moore and E. Betche, in " Handbook of the Flora 
of New South Wales," p. 170. " Stems almost or quite prostrate. Sandy sea- 
shores." 
It seems to differ in habit only from normal iongifolia and from var. 
Sophora. It possesses sand-binding properties in an exceptional degree, creeping 
along the sand and rooting, on the loose sand running 6 or 7 feet along the ground. . 
It is common enough in the Sydney district, where it has been most 
observed, but it is found north and south of Sydney. Variety Sophora; also has this 
creeping rooting habit, and I am unable to see in what way var. prostrata can be 
differentiated from it. 
(4) Variety Bylongensis, R. T. Baker, in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., xxi, 
443. AVith phyllodes 16 to 20 inches long and inch broad. By long Creek, 
Upper Goulburn River, N.S.W., also Gulf Road and Camboon (R. T. Baker). 
