Part 29 (1/2)

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 359:

”Red Bottle-brush The flowers of some species of Callistemon are like bottle-brushes in shape”

<hw>Bottle-Gourd</hw>, n an Australian plant, Lagenaria vulgaris, Ser, NO Cucurbitaceae

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 192:

”Bottle Gourd This plant, so plentiful along the tropical coast of Queensland, is said to be a dangerous poison It is said that so for some time in a bottle formed of one of these fruits (F M Bailey)”

<hw>Bottle-S>, n a popular naenoplastis ariel, otherwise called the Fairy Martin See Martin The naenoplashs is froon, and plautaes, a modeller

The nests are often constructed in clusters under rocks or the eaves of buildings The bird is widely distributed in Australia, and has occurred in Tasmania

<hw>Bottle-tree</hw>, n an Australian tree, various species of Sterculia, iq Kurrajong (qv) So named froson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p 264:

”The sterculia, or bottle-tree, is a very singular curiosity

It generally varies in shape between a soda-water and port-wine bottle, narrow at the basis, gradually widening at thetowards the neck”

1848 L Leichhardt, Letter in `Cooksland, by J D Lang, p 91:

”Thetree of this Rosewood Brush is the true bottle-tree, a strange-looking unseeh, and then tapers rapidly into a sular, the leaves lanceolate, of a greyish green; the height of the whole tree is about forty-five feet”

1865 Rev J E Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia,' vol i p 127:

”It was on this range (Lat 26 degrees, 42') that Mitchell saw the bottle-tree for the first tirew like an enormous pear-shaped turnip, with only a sround”

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 60:

”A `Kurrajong' The `Bottle-tree' of NE Australia, and also called `Gouty-stem,' on account of the extraordinary shape of the trunk It is the `Binkey' of the aboriginals

”The steacanth, which is wholesome and nutritious, and is said to be used as an article of food by the aborigines in cases of extre boiling water on chips of the wood”

<hw>Botto, the old river-bed upon which the wash-dirt rests, and upon which the richest alluvial gold is found; soutter

1887 H H Hayter, `Christmas Adventure,' p 5:

”We reached the bottoold”

<hw>Bottoet to the bedrock, or clay, belohich it was useless to sink (gold-)

1858 T McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c xv p 219:

”In their anxiety to bottom their claims, they not seldom threay the richest stuff”

<hw>Boundary-rider</hw>, n a man who rides round the fences of a station to see that they are in order

1890 E W Hornung, `A Bride from the Bush,' p 279: