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Flowers. —In the National Herbarium, Sydney, we have flowering specimens 
in the following months. See p. 46. 
Mollis. 
Locality, N.SAV. 
January 
Major’s Creek. 
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Araluen, Tallwong, Shoalhaven, Peak Hill, Sydney. 
February 
Minore, Dubbo. 
March 
Nyngan. 
April 
Gulgong. 
June 
Booral, near Stroud. 
July. 
Greta, Newcastle, Wagga Wagga. 
August 
Port Stephens, Condobolin. 
September ... ... ... „. 
Burwood, Sydney. 
Middle Head, Sydney. 
October 
Illawarra. 
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Port Stephens. 
November ... 
Port Stephens, Sydney, Moruya. 
December ... 
Major’s Creek. 
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Sydney. 
October, December, January, February—Tasmania. 
September, November, December, March—Victoria. 
Aberrant western New South Wales forms referred to below flower— 
January—Lue, Mudgee district. July—Dubbo. 
February—Dubbo. September—Harvey Range, Dubbo. 
May—Mount Hope. November— ,, „ „ 
Bark .—This variety of Acacia decurrens is the one which has made the 
reputation of the hark. The celebrated Tasmanian and Portland (Victoria) hark is 
the product of this variety. 
I now proceed to give brief descriptions, with analyses, of illustrative samples 
of this bark, and for practical convenience I divide those of New South Wales into 
southern and northern localities, taking the Hawkesbury River as a natural 
boundary. 
Southern Barks. 
A sample of a smooth green bark from a young tree afforded 33*5 per cent, 
of tannic acid, and 6T85 per cent, of extract, while a second sample, from an older 
tree, gave 35*3 per cent, of tannic acid, and 59*05 per cent, of extract. Both were 
grown near Penrith, New South Wales. 
A black bark, slightly rugged, from Mulgoa, Penrith, gave 35*56 per cent, of 
tannic acid, and 59*2 per cent, of extract. It was known locally as “ Green Wattle.” 
A sample received May, 1890, and analysed the following month, was found 
to contain 34*85 per cent, of tannic acid, and 61*5 percent, of extract. It came from 
Burragorang. It is thicker than most barks of this species, and is beginning to be 
scaly on the outside. Were it not for that defect it would be a splendid bark. It 
was allowed to remain a year too long on the tree, a fault not usually to be found 
with bark-getters. 
