Hensl.,
(i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>, is there called the <i>Drooping
Acacia</i>.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 202:

"We possess above a hundred and thirty species of the acacia."

1839. Dr. J. Shotsky, quoted in `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 5,
p. 5, col. 2:

"Yet, Australian sky and nature awaits and merits real artists
to portray it. Its gigantic gum and acacia trees, 40 ft. in
girth, some of them covered with a most smooth bark, externally
as white as chalk. .. ."

1844. L. Leichhardt, Letter in `Cooksland,' by J. D. Lang, p. 91:

"Rosewood Acacia, the wood of which has a very agreeable violet
scent like the Myal Acacia (<i>A. pendula</i>) in Liverpool
Plains."

1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 149:

"The Acacias are innumerable, all yielding a famous bark for
tanning, and a clean and excellent gum."

1869. Mrs. Meredith, `A Tasmanian Memory,' p. 8:

"Acacias fringed with gold."

1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings,' p. 24:

"The name Acacia, derived from the Greek, and indicative of a
thorny plant, was already bestowed by the ancient naturalist
and physician Dioscorides on a Gum-Arabic yielding
North-African Acacia not dissimilar to some Australian species.
This generic name is so familiarly known, that the appellation
`Wattle' might well be dispensed with. Indeed the name Acacia
is in full use in works on travels and in many popular writings
for the numerous Australian species . . . Few of any genera of
plants contain more species than Acacia, and in Australia it is
the richest of all; about 300 species, as occurring in our
continent, have been clearly defined."

<hw>Acrobates</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the
Australian genus of <i>Pigmy Flying-Phalangers</i>, or, as they
are locally called, <i>Opossum-Mice</i>. See <i>Opossum-Mouse,
Flying-Mouse, Flying-Phalanger</i>, and <i>Phalanger</i>. The
genus was founded by Desmarest in 1817.
(Grk. <i>'akrobataes</i>, walking on tiptoe.)

<hw>AEpyprymnus</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the genus
of the <i>Rufous Kangaroo-Rat</i>. It is the tallest and
largest of the Kangaroo-Rats (q.v.). (Grk. <i>'aipus</i>,
high, and <i>prumnon</i>, the hinder part.)

<hw>Ailuroedus</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name for the genus of
Australian birds called <i>Cat-birds</i> (q.v.). From
Grk. <i>'ailouros</i>, a cat, and <i>'eidos</i>, species.

<hw>Ake</hw>, <i>n</i>. originally A