Acacia of Tasmania. 
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A most variable plant; and certainly some specimens I obtained 
at Recherche Bay and from Macquarie Harbour might almost 
justify the re-establishment of A. ruscifolia as a species, were 
there not intermediate forms to connect the broad-leaved variety 
with the more common one. The present plant is usually called 
in the colony the “ Prickly Mimosa.” It forms dense thickets in 
wet situations, growing ten to fifteen feet high, flowering in Octo¬ 
ber. The roots, when cut—and the whole plant in certain states 
of the atmosphere—emit a peculiar odour, like that from the roots 
of the Fritillaria imperialis . 
6 . A. JRiceana (Henslow, in Botanist.) glabra, ramulis angulatis, 
phyllodiis anguste linearibus subulatisve sparsis subverticillatisque acu¬ 
minate pungentibus uninerviis, spicis elongatis gracilibus dissitifloris 
pbyllodia superantibus, bracteolis abbreviate.— A. setigeru, Hook. Ic. 
PI. iv. t. 316.—Pbyllodia 6-9 lin. louga, subrecurva. Spicce l-l)-pol- 
licares. Flores glabri srepius trimeri. Calyx brevis. Ovarium villo- 
sum.—V. Diemen’s Land, Gunn, n. 482. 
Very common in the neighbourhood of Hobart Town towards 
the Cascade, where it forms a beautiful shrub, growing eight to 
twelve feet high, and flowering in September and October. 
7. A. axillaris (Bentbam, sp. n.) glabra v. ramulis minute pube- 
rulis subteretibus, pbyllodiis anguste linearibus subulatisve recurvis 
rigidis mucronato-pungentibus 1-2-nerviis, spicis brevissimis sessilibus 
1 -3-floris, bracteolis lanceolatis fuscis floribusque glaberrimis.—Phyl- 
lodia subpollicaria. Pedunculi bracteis parvis deciduis subtensi, nunc 
uniflori vix semilineam longi, nunc 11-2 lin. longi, subtrifiori. Flores 
S llicearue v. paullo majores.—V. Diemen’s Laud, Gunn, n. 132. 
A very beautiful species, common upon the Derwent above 
New Norfolk, where it grows eight to ten feet high, hanging over 
the river in the most graceful manner, the extremities of the 
branches drooping downwards. It flowers in September and 
October. 
8 . A. myrtifolia (Willd. Sp. iv. 1054.) glaberrima, ramulis angula¬ 
tis, phyllodiis oblique oblongis falcatisve calloso-mucronatis crassis 
margiuatis nervo incurvo basi angustatis infra medium glanduliferis, 
raoemis pbyllodiis brevioribus, ovario glabro v. leviter puberulo.—Sw. 
