Acacia pubescens. Downy wattle . An attractive bush with fern-like foliage and bright yellow spring flowers. Within three years of European settlement of Australia, the plant was in cultivation in England. Jane Taylor (active 1836~1842) was a painter of still lives and contributor of flower drawings to the Society of British Artists in London.. Benjamin Maund's The Botanist was a five-volume series that introduced 250 new plants from 1836 to 1842. The series is notable for its many female artists: the plates were drawn by Maund's daughters Sarah and Eliza, Augusta Withers, Priscilla Bury, Jane Taylor, Miss R. Mills among others. The other characteristic is partial colouring - many of the finely detailed copperplate engravings are left with part of the flower and leaves uncoloured.