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Notes on the 
Very common in stiff clay land and in rocky places in many 
parts of the colony, attaining in some situations to a height of live 
to six feet, but usually not exceeding three to four, and oftene r 
less, with a very straggling habit and few branches. The Phyllo. 
dia vary much both as to length and breadth in different situtu 
tions, so that an ordinary observer would be apt to suppose the 
varieties were distinct species. It flowers in September and tb*- 
early part of October. 
4. A. ovoidea (Benth. sp. n.), prostrata, glabra, ramulis angulatos. 
triads, phyllodiisdivaricatishinc inde verticilladslinearis ubulatis rigidi% 
acuminato-pungentibusnervo prominente subtetragonis basi non anguiK 
tatis, pedunculis phy llodio brevioribus, spieis ovoideis v. oblongis densi% 
multifloris.—Laxior quam A. verticillata , pbyllodiis swpe sparsis. Spk 
culsa vix unqnnm duplo longiores quam latte, plerseque 2-2) lin. long®, 
Bracteol® acumiuatse. Ovarium tomentosum. Legumen pollicare^ 
1 J lin. latum, vix falcatum, utrinque acutiusculum, compressum, mar\ 
ginatum, valvulis membranaceo-coriaceis.—V. Diemen’s Land, Gunn * 
n. 676; S. E. Australia, Mitchell. 
A weak straggling plant, having a slight resemblance to A , 
verticillata, which grows on the Sand-hills, and in sandy land not 
far removed from the sea at George Town and Circular Head. If 
is usually procumbent, and one of the least attractive of the Tas-. 
manian Acacias. It flowers in September. Colour of the flower, 
very pale yellow. 
5. A. verticillata (Willd. Spec. iv. 1040.), glabra v. pubescens, ra¬ 
mulis angulato-striatis, phyllodiis divaricads subverticillads liueari- 
subulatis laneeolads v. oblongis rigidis mucronato-pungentibus basi 
subangustatia utiinerviis v. rarius subtrinerviis, spieis cylindricis densis 
phyllodia superantibus, bracteolis acuminatis.—Vent. Malm. t. 63.— 
Bot. Mag. t. 110.—Bot. Cab. t. 635.—Pbyllodia vix unquam semipol- 
licaria, ladtudine valde variabilia, nunc subulato-tetragona, nune l)-*2 
lin. lata. Spicffi semipollicares, rarius fere pollicares. Calyx puberulus, 
profunde partitus, corolla membranacea dimidio brevior. Legumen 
l)-2 pollicare, lineare, subfalcatum, utrinque acutiusculum, compres¬ 
sum, marginatum, valvulis membranaceo-coriaceis.—V. Diemen’s Land, 
Gunn, n. 204, and 481, and other collections. 
Var. latifolia, DC.—A. ruscifolia, Cunn, in G, Don, Gard. Diet. ii. 
407.—Bot. Mag. t. 3174.—With the last. 
