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These northern specimens alone show that vars. mollis and pauciglandulosa 
run into eacli other. 
Out West, the variety becomes more stunted, hut otherwise nearly normal. 
Fine, short golden hairs sometimes extend lower than the tips of the branches. 
Minore, Peak Hill, Condobolin Hill, Coolabah, Nymagee. 
Sometimes the leaflets become entirely glabrous, with a few short hairs on 
the rliacliis, further apart, longer and narrower— e.g , Wagga Wagga, Gulgong, 
leaflets further apart as regards the lower portion of the branchlets. 
Then we have many western forms which display unmistakable transit to 
A. Uuelleriana, Maiden and Baker, with its glabrous, long, comparatively broad 
leaflets, small flower-lieads, and flat, glabrous pods. For example, Harvey Range, 
Minore. Specimens from Lue, Mudgee District, with the leaflets wide apart, and 
Yarrowitcli to Tia, Yew England, certainly bear affinity to A. Muelleriana, but are, 
perhaps, even closer to var. normalis than to var. mollis. These and other forms 
cannot be clearly defined without figures. 
3. Variet y pauciglandulosa, F.v.M. 
Botanical description. —Variety pauciglandulosa, F.v.M., in B.F1. ii, 115. 
Pubescent, but not so softly so as in the var. mollis , and sometimes almost hirsute, with the same 
golden-yellow tinge on the young shoots. Leaflets small, often under 2 lines; glands few, 
often under only the last 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae. New England, Clarence and Hastings 
Rivers, Moreton Bay, &c., also between Archer’s and McKenzie’s stations, in moist places.— 
Leichhardt. 
It may be described in the following words :— 
Pubescent, but not so softly so as in the var. mollis, and sometimes also hirsute, with the same 
golden-yellow tinge in the young shoots. The yellowish tinge deepest in this variety, might 
be termed old gold. Often scabrous. 
Decurrent angles from the leaf-stalks somewhat prominent. All stages of angularity, but never 
so marked as in var. normalis. 
Pinner. —Mostly 8-12 pairs in my specimens. 
Pinnules {Leaflets). —20-40 pairs. Small, often under 2 lines (Bentham); approximately same 
shape and size as mollis. 
Glands. —Few; often only under the last 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae. They often even require careful 
search to find them. 
Floiver-heads. —Of medium size. About 25 flowers in each head. 
Calyx. —Not so deeply lobed as other varieties, and less broadly lobed. Ciliate on midrib. In 
a few flowers dissected the calyx was shorter than in var. normalis. 
Petals.— Not ciliate. Midrib less distinct than others, if any. 
Pods. —Apparently larger than that of any other variety, but perhaps this is not generally true. 
Seeds. —Same as in var. normalis. 
I do not think that this is a strong variety. It runs into var. mollis too 
much. Typical var. mollis has more spathulate leaflets than lias var. pauciglandulosa, 
and the plant is more angular, and altogether ipore hairy, and even sometimes 
