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Art. II, Notes on the Acacice of Tasmania. By Mr. Ronald 
C. Gunn. 
Mr. George Bentham published iu the London Journal of 
Botany an admirable Synopsis of the Mimosese, which contains 
descriptions of all our known Tasmanian species of Acacia, a 
genus possessing much beauty and interest; and as many of the 
botanical readers of the “ Tasmanian Journal” may not possess 
that very excellent book, 1 have thought it desirable to extract 
from it the descriptions of our Van Diemen’s Land species, and 
to add such observations on their distribution, &c., in the island, 
as I thought might prove interesting. 
Out of twenty-one species thus described as indigenous to the 
colony, three only have bipinnate leaves; the other eighteen 
belonging to the leafless division, a character almost peculiar to 
the Australian Acacise. 
The following are the principal groups into which Mr. Bentham 
has distributed the Australian species of Acacia;— 
Series I.— Phyllojiin EM,foliis adpetiolos foliiformis rcductis, 
rarius omnino nullis. (Australasicse.) Spec. 1-204. 
§ 1. Aphgllee, pbyllodiis nullis. Spec. 1-2. 
^2. Alata, pbyllodiis clecurrentibus. Spec. 3—11. 
§ 3. Armatee, stipulis spinescentibus, pbyllodiis ex ovato ad lineare. 
Spec. 12—26. 
§ 4. Triangulares , stipulis variis, phyllodiis parvis, angulo inferiore 
mucronato, superiore ssepe glandulifero. Spec. 27 —39. 
§ 5. Pungentes, stipulis tniuutis v. nullis, phyllodiis ex laticeolato ad 
subulatum brevibus acuminato-pungentibus. Spec. 40—61. 
• Capitatse plurinervite. Spec. 40—48. ** Capital® uninervise. 
Spec. 49—56. *** Spicatss. Spec. 57—61. 
§ 6. Calami formes, stipulis subnullis, pbyllodiis subulatis elongatis non 
pungentibus, inflorescentia capitata. Spec. 62— 69. 
§ 7. Brunioideee, stipulis setaceis v. nullis, phyllodiis brevibus verticil- 
latis v. sparsim confertis angustis teretibusve non pungentibus. 
Spec. 70-76. 
§ 8. Uninerviee, stipulis subnullis, pbyllodiis ex ovato ad lineare non 
pungentibus uninerviis, iuflorescentia capitata. Spec. 77—139. 
