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5. Acacia mucronata Willd. Mueller's observations will be found at page 159 
of the present Part. 
6. Acacia linearis Sims. This form is now recognised as too distinct to be 
considered as a form of A. longifolia, and it will be dismissed for the present. 
Vernacular Name. If usually goes under the name of " Sally." Sometimes 
called " White Sally " (Sally being a corruption of " Sallow," an English name for a 
Willow), as it is more or less pendulous in habit. The name Sally or Sallow was of very 
frequent application to native trees in the County of Cumberland in the earliest days 
of settlement. 
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Aboriginal Name. Called " Marrai-uo " by the aborigines of the Illawarra, 
New South Wales, according to the late Sir William Macarthur. 
Synonyms. (1) In Loddiges' Bot. Cab. t. 763 (1823) Acacia angustifolia is 
stated to have " some resemblance to the floribunda of Ventenat." The figure is not 
a good one, with phyllodes 4 cm. long and very narrow. It is hard to say what the 
original was, but no one can dispute Bentham's suggestion that it is A. floribunda. 
(2) De Candolle (loc. cit.) gives : 
(a) Mimosa floribunda Ventenat, Choix des Plantes t. 13. (This work is not 
in any Sydney library.) 
(b) A. longifolia Sieb. pi. exs. n. 440. 
If the same work and same page be referred to we note under A. longifolia Willd. 
the synonym : 
A. floribunda Sieb. pis. exs. nos. 438 and 439. In other words, Sieber, in naming 
his collections, transposed Willdenow's two species, longifolia and floribunda. 
(3) A. intermedia A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3203. Bentham adds " with broader 
phyllodia," but I do not agree. I would say that the average phyllode of A. floribunda 
is not narrower than that of the plate of A. intermedia. 
(4) A. decussata, Tenore, Cat. Hort. Neap v 77 (according to Bentham). 
Bark. A specimen was obtained from Cambewarra, N.S.W., in August, 1886, 
and examined by me with the following result in April, 1890 : Tannic acid, 6'09 per 
cent.; extract, 14' 95 per cent. It was from trees 20 to 50 feet high, locally known as 
" Sally," or " Sallow." The bark is very like that of the normal species, but from an 
older tree, and also full of fibre. A specimen of " Sally " from Belong Swamp, Nowra, 
collected in July, 1888, and analysed also in April, 1890, gave only 2 - 54 per cent, of 
tannic acid, with 13'07 per cent, of extract. It is a useless, fibrous bark, yielding a 
substance like chopped grass when passed through the mill. It was from trees 20 to 
40 feet high, with diameter of 6 to 18 inches, and grown on alluvial soil, which the species 
in general usually favours. The barks were collected by Mr. Baeuerlen, and do not promise 
much to the tanner. 
