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a reddish copper color. Wings yellow, tinged with a reddish copper color towards the base, Keel of a deep claret color. Germen with about 6 seeds.
In the older plants the leaves are much smaller, and the lower part of the stem cylindrical. I saw an instance of a few leaves springing out of the axilla of others. It is remarkable in the wings being so much smaller in the proportion to the other parts. In the younger plants the flowers frequently point one way. A beautiful shrub, flowering in April & May - Not a Platylobium.
May 1803
Mimosa gummifera
The leaves possess a kind of [indecipherable] or sensibility. An ornamental and beautiful tree.
August 29th 1801
Mimosa [indecipherable]
From the branches & leaves run decurrent lines, but in this species they are not very conspicuous.
Sept 5th 1801
Pimelia [Pimelea] involusata
Some of the flowers are slightly rose colored.
August 29th 1801