The following list of vernacular namesof the various Wattles is compiled from Maiden's `UsefulNative Plants'; it will be 102: But he whose grief was most sincere The news of that unwonted death to hear, Was Kangapo, the Tohunga--a Priest And fell Magician famous far and near. a name given in North Australiato the Sea-slug, or Trepang; because the appearance of itstentacles suggests the teat of a cow. ] In laying up a store of bunyas, the blacksexhibited an unusual foresight.
The third genus, Dasyuroides, has only one species--Byrne's Pouched-Mouse, D. 347: Yielding frequently a very weak and sour kind of grass,interspersed with a species of bulrush called grass-trees,which are universal signs of poverty. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions into the Interiorof Eastern Australia,' vol. 257: Its banks (Murrumbidgee) are fringed with the beautifulswamp-oak, a tree of the Casuarina family, with a formand character somewhat int
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