122 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
The Government Analyst of New South Wales has failed to 
find an alkaloid or poisonous principle in the seeds, and suggests 
that they may be injurious on account of their indigestibility. 
(Report of Dept. of Mines, N.S.W., p. 46.) It is, however, to be 
borne in mind that the Leguminosz are emphatically a poisonous 
Natural Order, although they yield some of the most valuable foods 
of man and beast. ; 
Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 
26. Casuarina stricta, 47/., N.O., Casuarinez, (Syn. C. guadri- 
valuts, Labill.; C. macrocarpa, A. Cunn.; C. cristata, Miq. ; 
C. Gunnit, Hook. f.); B.FI., vi., 195. C. guadrivalvis in 
Muell. Cens., p. 22. 
“Coast She-oak.” ‘Swamp Oak.” ‘ River Oak.” “ Wargnal” 
of the aboriginals. 
Mr. S. Dixon states that in Port Lincoln (S.A.) the fallen 
catkins (male inflorescence) form the chief sustenance in winter, 
on much of the overstocked country. 
The foliage is eagerly browsed upon by stock, and in cases of 
drought these trees are pollarded for the cattle. Old bullock- 
drivers say that cattle prefer the foliage of the female plant (J. E. 
Brown). Casuarina foliage has a pleasant acidulous taste, but it 
contains a very large proportion of ligneous matter. 
Mr. S. Dixon (op. cz¢.) states that this tree is too sour to be 
very useful to ewes rearing lambs, but if sheep had only enough 
of it the ‘‘ brake” or tenderness of fibre would often be prevented 
in our fine wool districts, and much money saved by the increased 
value a sound staple always commands. 
All the colonies except Queensland and Western Australia. 
27. Casuarina suberosa, O//o ef Dietr., N.O., Casuarinez, (Syn. 
C. leptoclada Miq.; C. me@sta F.v. M.); B.FI., vi., 197. 
“ Erect She-oak.’”’ ‘Forest Oak.” ‘‘ Swamp Oak.” “ River Black- 
oak.” ‘Shingle Oak.” ‘Beef Wood.” ‘“ Dahl-wak” of the aborigines, 
A very valuable fodder tree, largely used and much valued in 
the interior districts as food for stock during periods of drought. 
The same remarks apply more or less to all species of Casuarina. 
All the Colonies except Southern and Western Australia. 
