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A sample of tlie bark of this tree exhibited at the London International 
Exhibition, 1862, seemed to the jurors “ to be admirably adapted for the manufacture 
of paper.” The fibres of all wattles are, however, of a coarse nature, and its use for 
fibre is but of museum interest. 
Timber. —Timber light, tough and strong ; used for staves for beef and water 
casks in Tasmania. It is an inferior timber, and that of all the varieties is much 
alike. It is subject to attack by insects. It was formerly used by the Yarra blacks 
for mulgas (club shields), boomerangs, and spears. Specific gravity, ‘773 and ‘727 
(Report, Victorian Exhibition, 1861). Diameter, 6 to 9 inches ; height, 20 to 30 feet. 
TIMBER EXPERIMENTED UPON BY VICTORIAN TIMBER BOARD, 1884. 
The samples tested were each 7 feet in length by If inch square, the distance 
between the bearings was 6 feet, and the weight was gradually applied in the centre 
until the sample broke. 
Local name, Silver Wattle; locality where grown, Waterloo, Victoria; 
approximate date when the timber was cut, April, 1883; dimensions of tree, 2 feet 
diameter; date of testing, 28th January, 1881. 
Weight of samples, 9 lb., Sf lb., lb.; average weight of samples, 8'58 lb.; 
average weight per cubic foot, 50‘20 lb.; average specific gravity, 0 801; breaking 
weight of each sample, 6 tons 1 cwt. 9 lb., 6 tons 1 cwt. 1 lb., and 7 tons 2 cwt. 3 lb.; 
average breaking weight of samples, 752 3 lh.; deflection at point of rupture, 6f in., 
5f in., and 3f in.; average deflection, 5'29 in.; average specific strength, 2,053. 
Geological formation where the trees grew, Mesozoic ; elevation above sea-level, 
about 1,200 feet. 
Fllllgi.— TJromycladium notabile (Ludw.) McAlp. 
Habitat.— The only form in Tasmania, and the most common one in 
Victoria; less frequent in the northern districts of New South Wales. 
Queensland. —Inland, extra-tropical Queensland. 
South Australia. —South of the Murray Desert, embracing the 90-mile 
Desert and the Tatiara ; Mount Gambier District. 
In New South Wales this variety flourishes best in the colder districts of this 
State, chiefly on the southern table-lands, but is by no means confined to the colder 
districts, as the following specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, show:— 
Cooma; Mogo, near Moruya, “Green Wattle, the tan-bark”; Tallwong, 
Marulan, Hill Top, National Park, Parramatta (examined by Bentliam), Wahroonga, 
Sydney. It is apparently not common in northern New South Wales, e.g , Warialda. 
Pods nearly glabrous, leaflets more spathulate than var. pauciglandulosa and not 
hairy on the tips ; Warialda—More glabrous than the preceding, and farther remote 
from var. pauciglandulosa ; Warialda—Nearer the 'pauciglandulosa type, hut glands 
abundant; Invcrcll—almost entirely glabrous. 
