Part 46 (1/2)

<hw>Carpet-Snake</hw>, n a large Australian snake with a variegated skin, Python variegata, Gray In Whitworth's `Anglo-Indian Dictionary,' 1885 (sv), we are told that the name is loosely applied (sc in India) to any kind of snake found in a dwelling-house other than a cobra or a dhaman

In Tasel See under Snake

<hw>Carrier</hw>, n a local nalish Illustrated,' Feb, p 321:

”For the water-holders or `carriers' ( them, or to `ride easily' on pack-saddles)”

<hw>Carrot, Native</hw>, (1) Daucus brachiatus, Sieb, NO Umbelliferae Not endemic in Australia

1847 L Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p 64:

”The native carrotwas here withered and in seed”

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 124:

”Native carrot Stock are very fond of this plant when young

Sheep thrive wonderfully on it where it is plentiful It is a s plentifully on sandhills and rich soil; the seeds, locally termed `carrot burrs,' are very injurious to wool, the hooked spines hich the seeds are ar portions of it quite stiff and rigid The coenus, and the fact that it is descended from an apparently worthless, weedy plant, indicates that the present species is capable of much improvement by cultivation”

(2) In Tasmania Geranium dissectum, Linn, is also called ”native carrot”

<hw>Cascarilla, Native</hw>, n an Australian timber, Croton verreauxii, Baill, NO Euphorbiaceae

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 408:

”Native cascarilla A srained and firm”

<hw>Cassowary</hw>, n The word is Malay, the genus being found in ”the Islands in the Indian Archipelago”

(`OED') The Australian variety is Casuarius australis, Waller The name is often erroneously applied (as in the first two quotations), to the Emu (qv), which is not a Cassowary

1789 Governor Phillip, `Voyage,' c xxii p 271:

”New Holland Cassowary [Description given] This bird is not uncommon to New Holland, as several of them have been seen about Botany Bay, and other partsAlthough this bird cannot fly, it runs so swiftly that a greyhound can scarcely overtake it The flesh is said to be in taste not unlike beef”

1802 G Barrington, `History of New South Wales,'

c xi p 438:

”The cassowary of New South Wales is larger in all respects than the well-known bird called the cassowary”

1869 J Gould, `Birds of Australia' (Supplement):

”Casuarius Australis, Wall, Australian Cassowary, so Cannibals,' p 73:

”One day an egg of a cassoas brought to h it is nearly akin to the ostrich and emu, does not, like the latter, frequent the open plains, but the thick brushwood The Australian cassowary is found in Northern Queensland froe vine-scrubs on the banks of the rivers, and on the high mountains of the coasts”