Identifier: journalproceedi561922roya (find matches)
Title: Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Royal Society of New South Wales Royal Society of New South Wales. Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales Royal Society of New South Wales. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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channelling of the petioles of the leaves and of that ofthe upper edge of the phyllodes from the base to the angle,as though the channelled portion of the phyllode may repre-sent the petiole of the earlier leaves.1 Several seeds of this species produced twin plants. It was noticed that plants of this species growing atMount Victoria favoured the small area of Narrabeen Shaleformation rather than the more siliceous HawkesburySandstone. Uninerves—(Racemosse).Acacia pycnantha Benth. Seeds from Potts Hill, Sydney,and Melbourne (Cultivated). (Plate III, Numbers 1to 3). Seeds black, oblong, 4 to 5 mm. long, 2*5 to 3 mm. broad,1*5 mm. thick. Hypocotyl terete, creamy to reddish-brown, 1 to 5 cm.long, 1*5 to 2 mm. thick at base, *7 to 1 mm. at apex. 1 See a paper by J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc, On the correct Interpre-tation of the so-called Phyllodes of the Australian Phyllodineous Acacias.Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xlv, 24, (1920). Journal Royal Society of N.S. W., Vol. L VI, 1922. Plate III.
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Acacia pycnantha (1 - 3); A. Westoni (4-6).Half Natural Size. ACACIA SEEDLINGS. 139 Cotyledons sessile, slightly auricled, oblong, apexrounded, upperside green, underside from creamy, tippedwith reddish-brown, to red, striate, 5 to 6 mm. long, 3 mm.broad, soon becoming revolute and cylindrical. Stem terete, brown, glabrous. First internode *5 mm.;second to fourth 5 to 1 mm.; fifth to eighth 1 to 4 mm. Leaves—No. 1. Abruptly pinnate, petiole 3 to 4 mm.,glabrous to faintly pilose, sometimes with marginal gland;leaflets three to five pairs, oblong-acuminate, 5 to 8 mm.long, 1*5 to 3 mm. broad, upperside green, underside paler,margins often red; rachis 4 mm. to 1*2, cm., glabrous, withterminal seta. No. 2. Abruptly bipinnate, petiole 5 mm. to 1*1 cm.,faintly pilose, sometimes with small gland on upper margin,witii terminal seta; leaflets three to five pairs, oblong-acuminate to cuneate, 4 to 6 mm. long, 1*5 to 3*5 mm.,broad; rachis 4 mm. to 1*2 cm., with terminal seta; stipulesreduced t

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