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Western Localities. —Paulconbridge; Mount Banks or King George, with 
bright yellow tips; Jenolan Caves; Kerr’s Creek, Orange; Parkes Water Supply. 
Northern Localities. —Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, near var. mollis ; 
Apsley Palls; Stewart’s Brook, showing transit to var. pauciglandulosa. 
It is very widely diffused in New South Wales, attaining its greatest 
development in the valleys of the Southern Table-land, in cold situations approximating 
to those in Victoria and Tasmania. 
Propagation. — I have already referred to its rapid growth in India, and to 
its cultivation in Southern Europe. The following unpublished notes were written 
some years ago, and give some idea of the appreciation it receives in the Northern 
Hemisphere :— 
It appears to be one of the hardiest of the genus, as it is one of the most ornamental. At Bayonne, 
in the Lower Pyrenees, Madame Leon made a considerable plantation of it a few years ago which has now 
developed into a charming miniature forest. Even as far north as Nantes it flourishes and resists ordinary 
winters. In very severe winters it is sometimes killed down to the ground, but it throws up again with 
increased vigour. The foregoing particulars we glean from the organ of the Central Horticultural Society 
of France, and we have no doubt that this Acacia will prove equally as hardy in the West of England. 
Its white foliage contrasts well with the sombre foliage of many Australian 
trees, and I certainly think it is worthy of more extensive cultivation for ornamental 
purposes. We take far greater pains over less meritorious exotics. 
6. Variety lanigera , Maiden, in “ Wattles and Wattle-barks,” 3rd edition, 
1906, p. 41. 
A small tree or tall shrub, characterised by every part of it—old and young 
leaflets, rhachises and twigs, and pods—being densely covered with a white or brown 
indument. 
It may be described as an “ exaggerated ” form of var. clealbata, but so much 
more woolly-hairy than var. dealbata as to be worthy of some designation. 
Leaflets about twenty and over, coarser than those of var. dealbata, the variety 
it most closely resembles. Harvey Range, J. L. Boorman, 1905 (type). Closely 
allied forms from Gloucester Buckets, E. Betclie, 1882 ; J.H.M., 1897 ; Parkes 
Water Supply, J.H.M., 1897. 
This remarkable form will be better understood on reference to the Plate. It 
seems to me the handsomest variety of the species, and worthy of cultivation for 
ornamental purposes. It grows in dry localities. 
