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THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 139 
NOTES ON LORANTHS FROM WAGGA DISTRICT. 
By Miss C. M. Lr Puastrizr. 
On the Albury-road, a few miles out of Wagga Wagga, I 
found some very fine Yellow Box (Hucalyptus melliodora), af- 
fording a grateful shade from the glare on the dusty road. 
The eastern side of each of these trees was draped with a 
mistletoe (Loranthus pendulus), which hung in festoons to 
within six feet of the ground. As the leaves of the eucalypt 
are lanceolate and those of the parasite of almost the same 
shape, there was only the difference in colour to distinguish 
them. I noted in Loranthus linophyllus growing on Casuarina 
lepidophloia the same adaptation to the habit of the host, for 
in this instance the leaves of the parasite were terete, long and 
slender, making it impossible except by close observation to 
distinguish between the foliage of the host and that of the para- 
site. May this be a case of protective adaptation? I tind 
among my notes an observation on the very large leaves of the 
loranth (Loranthus longifolius) which I found growing on 
Eucalyptus eximia in Galston Gorge in 1913, contrasting them 
with those of ZL. celastroides, L. pendulus and others found oa 
narrower leaved varieties. In Loranthus quandong, which was 
collected in Barmedman, the leaves are narrow-lanceolate, and 
the leaves of the Quandong (Santalum acuminatum) on which 
it was growing were also narrow lanceolate. 
NOTES ON CASUARINA LEPIDOPHLOIA. 
By Miss C. M. Le Puastrizr. 
The specimen exhibited was collected by me in the vicinity 
of Wagga Wagga, in two distinct localities. I was also shown 
fine specimens collected at Barmedman by the Rev. Dr. Dwyer; 
this was in flower with the male spikes, which were about two 
inches long. Moore and Betche, it may be noted, state that the 
male spikes are not known. The tree attains the height of 
about thirty or forty feet in those I noted. They are very 
graceful, and when found growing near the Currajong (Ster- 
culia diversifolia), as I found them near the Albury-road, the 
dark green of the Casuarina contrasts finely with the bright. 
green of the other tree. As it was January, there were not any 
flowers, but cones were abundant, and I secured several. They 
are fairly large, about one inch in diameter,: bright golden 
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