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Bentham’s remark, however, is :— 
Some specimens with shorter cones, from Murchison River, are referred by Mi quel to C. obesa, 
Miq., in PL Preiss. i, 640, which he afterwards, in DC. Prod. XVI, ii, 34, reduces to C. glauca, and 
they certainly appear, in some measure, intermediate between that species and C. Huegeliana. The eastern 
specimens named by Miquel in Herb. Hook., C. obesa, are certainly a common form of C. glauca .— 
(13.FI. vi, 197.) 
I have examined the following specimens :— 
(1) 2002. Preiss 4. Casuarina obesa, Miq. 
In depressis turfosis humidis ad fluvium Cygnorum supra oppidulum Perth, (27, 6, 39); et in solo 
calcareo ad sestuarium portus Leschenault (30, 12, 39).—(PI. Preiss 1, 640.) 
(2) No. 449. Murchison River (Oldfield). C. glauca, Sieb. (Mueller). 
(3) Cas. glauca, Sieb. {C. obesa, Miq.), near Perth. W. V. Pitzgerald. $ 
(4) C. glauca, Sieb. Broad Arrow. W. V. Pitzgerald. $ 
The identity of this species with C. obesa, Miq. is therefore proved, and 
the fact is consequently established that C. glauca may be found in the dry interior, 
as well as in coastal situations. Its occurrence in western New South Wales is not 
improbable. 
B. C. glauca, Sieb., and C. pauper, P.v.M. 
Casuarina glauca , Sieb.—Miq. 1. c. 76, n. 30, Tab. xi, fig. c. 
In Peninsula Lefebre ad Portum Lincoln (F. Muller). Hujus loci esse videtur Casuarina pauper, 
F. Mull, adnot. mss., sub quo nomine non nisi strobili maturi exstant et quae sequitur adnotatio “ in 
clivio lapidosis et in deserto versus Morinde et Flinders Range. Non difficulter a C. quadrivalvi discernitur; 
ramulis crassioribus canis, dentibus vaginarum brevioribus, antheris minoribus, strobilis longioribus, denique 
habitu humiliore et ramis erectis nec adsurgentibus. She Oak colonorum ; fl. vere.—Strobili 5 cent, longi, 
3 crassi, cylindrico-oblongi, utrinque truncati, 22-stichi; bracteolae ellipticae acutiusculae prominulae. Ab 
immaturis conis C. glaucae a me olim delineatis, non nisi majori magnitudine differre videntur.—(Miq. in 
Ned. Kruidk. Arch., iv, 98 [1856.]) 
In the specimens from the interior, mentioned by Miquel in Ned. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 100 as 
C. pauper , F.v.M., and in those from Q., the cones are more like those of C. equisetifolia than those 
of Sieber’s typical specimens.—(B.F1. vi, 196, under glauca .) 
In DC. Prod. XVI, ii, 334, Miquel refers C. pauper, P. Muell. Herb., to 
glauca. 
I have been unable to see this South Australian Casuarina from the desert 
towards Morinde and Flinders Range. I strongly suspect it may be the Belah, 
or Black Oak (C. lepidophloia, see p. 79, of Part XIII), which is sometimes 
extraordinarily like C. glauca. This is a point for South Australian botanists to 
clear up. If C. pauper, F.v.M., proves to be identical with C. lepidophloia, P.v.M., 
the latter will, of course, have to give way. 
Leaves (Branchlets).—I have seen cattle leaving fair grass for branchlets 
of this plant, and probably they will feed more or less on the “ leaves " of all 
Casuarinas. 
