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Identifier: victoriannatura851968luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he golden masses of this wattle, inter-spersed with the white trunks of YellowGums and the black, deeply-furrowedtrunks of Ironbark, blend their colourson a grand scale which no artist butNature could achieve. The show-piece of the Whipstickhowever, is the Hakea Wattle whichoccurs in two forms. At the southernend of the Whipstick the keen observermay find small trees of this species,A. hakeoides. The phyllodes are somethree-eighths of an inch wide and up tofour inches long, while the blossomsare borne in small bunches, often aslong as the phyllodes. This speciescould be confused with some forms ofGolden Wattle, but the pods of HakeaWattle are easily distinguished fromthose of the former. The tree-like A.hakeoides is rare in the Whipstick. Most abundant and widespread ofall Whipstick acacias is the WhirrakeeWattle (A. hakeoides var angustifolia).It occurs as a rather dense shrub, fre-quently over ten feet high. The phyl-lodes may measure three inches orlonger, but are seldom wider than
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three-sixteenths of an inch. The flowersare borne in bunches which are shor-ter than the phyllodes. The HakeaWattle blooms during August and Sep-tember, and from mid-August to mid-September is the time to see thiswattle at its best. A drive through anytrack in the Whipstick then is one ofnever ending beauty. Excellent view-points are along the Tennyson Roadbetween Huntly and Kamarooka, andthe Neilborough Road between Simp-sons Road, Eaglehawk, and Neil-borough. At North Huntly are severallarge paddocks known as the HakeaPaddocks. Here, the Whirrakee Wattlesfree from the competition of othervegetation have grown into huge dome-shaped shrubs with foliage sweepingthe ground. Some measure over twelvefeet across and six to eight feet high,presenting a magnificent spectaclewhen in bloom. Towards the end of August whenthe Hakea, Whirrakee and GoldenWattles are blooming, the Whipstickglows with embers of living gold. A yellow-flowered dwarf wattle mostprevalent in the western and centralareas

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