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THE OCCIDENTAL BANKSIA. 
There is some difficulty in distinguishing this from the Littoral Banksia, in which also the leaves 
are occasionally verticillate. Professor Meisner has probably pointed out the essential peculiarities, 
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bracts being smooth at the point, and in the calyxes hanging on after flowering instead of dropping 
off. The leaves of the Littoral Banksia are longer, too, and somewhat broader. 
As to the Cunningham Banksia, figured in the Botanical Eegister under the false name of 
B. littoralis, whose leaves are also somewhat verticillate, the branches of that species are hairy, and 
the leaves shorter, with scarcely anv marginal serratnres. unless miite n+. flip nninf 
