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Habitat. —This species, one of the most beautiful of all Wattles, is confined 
to New South Wales and Queensland, so far as we know at present. It is a denizen 
of the Coast districts and table-lands, but its range has by no means been fully 
defined up to the present. It attains its best development near watercourses, but it 
is by no means confined to such moist, good-soil localities. 
I have it in the National Herbarium, Sydney, from the following localities :— 
New South Wales. 
Barber’s Creek (H. J. Rumsey); Badgery’s Crossing to Nowra (W. Forsyth 
and A. A. Hamilton), and these remain the most southerly records so far; Bullio, 
between Bowral and Wombeyan Caves (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.). 
St. Mary’s (E. Betche). 
Shrub of 3-1 feet; patch of 1-2 acres. Junction of Nepean and Warragamba 
Rivers. (No. 1923. R. H. Cambage.) 
Lapstone Hill, ascent of Blue Mountains from Nepean River (W. Forsyth). 
This is just about where Allan Cunningham found it. 
But it is on the Northern Rivers, and to a less extent on the northern table¬ 
lands, that A. fimbriata commonly occurs. 
Some localities are :— 
Near Woodford, Lower Hunter (Jesse Gregson) ; South Woolgoolga on 
gravelly ridge (E. H. E. Swain) ; Tia Canon, Walcha district (J.H.M., W. Forsyth, 
E. Clieel) ; between 27 and 28 mile posts, Tingha to Guyra, No. 998 (R. H. 
Cambage) ; Cow Flat, 25 miles north-west of Deepwater, No. 12 (E. C. Andrews); 
Shrubs of 6-8 feet on rich alluvial soil, Emmaville (J. L. Boorman) ; Bolivia (E. 
Betche, J. Vernon); “ Sally Wattle,” Unkya, Macleay River (No. 502, Forest 
Ranger G. R. Brown); “shrubby or arborescent,” narrow phyllodes. Upper 
Copmanhurst (Rev. H. M. R. Rupp) ; Wallangarra (New South Wales—Queens¬ 
land border) (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.). 
Queensland. 
Collected originally by Cunningham on the Brisbane River. Enoggera, near 
Brisbane (F. M. Bailey) ; Toowong and other places near Brisbane. A tall bushy 
shrub, common (J.H.M.). It would be desirable to ascertain its range in the 
northern State. 
I now proceed to make it clear what Acacia linifolia, Willd., really is, since 
it is the species which has been most commonly confused with A. fimbriata. 
