Part 64 (1/2)

<hw>Dacelo</hw>, n Narafisher” (`Century') Scientific name for the Jackass (qv)

<hw>Dactylopsila</hw>, n the scientific naer, called locally the Striped Opossu bare toe (Grk daktulos, a finger, and psilos, bare)

<hw>Daisy, Brisbane</hw>, n a Queensland and New South Wales plant, Brachycome microcarpa, F v M, NO Compositae

<hw>Daisy, Native</hw>, n a Tasmanian flower, Brachycome decipiens, Hook, NO Compositae

<hw>Daisy Tree</hw>, n two Taslandulosus, Lab, NO Compositae The latter is called the Swaland, the word means a barrier to stop water in Australia, it also means the water so stopped, as `OED' shows it does in Yorkshi+re

1873 Marcus Clarke, `Holiday Peak, &c,' p 76:

”The dah, St Roy reservoir was running over”

1892 `Scribner's Magazine,' Feb, p 141:

”Dams as he calls his reservoirs scooped out in the hard soil”

1893 `The Leader,' Jan 14:

”A boundary rider has been drowned in a dam”

1893 `The Times,' [Reprint] `Letters from Queensland,' p 68:

”At present few stations are subdivided into paddocks smaller than 20,000 acres apiece If in each of these there is but one waterhole or daht, sheep and cattle will destroy asto the drinking spot as they will eat Four paddocks of 5,000 acres each, well supplied ater, ought to carry alus,' March 30, p 6, col 9:

”[The murderer] has not since been heard of Daedbut without result”

<hw>Daenus, including the Kauri Pine (qv) It is from the Hindustani, damar, `resin' The name was applied to the Kauri Pine by Lambert in 1832, but it was afterwards found that Salisbury, in 1805, had previously constituted the genus Agathis for the reception of the Kauri Pine and the Dammar Pine of Amboyna This priority of claiathis as the nae scone of flour and water baked in hot ashes; the bread of the bush, which is always unleavened [The addition of water to the flour suggests aSee quotation, 1847]

1827 P Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol ii

p 190

”The farm-men usually make their flour into flat cakes, which they call damper, and cook these in the ashes ”

1833 C Sturt, `Southern Australia,'

vol ii c viii p 203:

”I watched the distorted countenances oftheir damper”

1845 J O Balfour, `Sketches of New South Wales,' p 103:

”Damper (a coarse dark bread)”