Part 104 (1/2)

”Where now the herum-tree stands on the plain's heart”

1864 J S Moore, `Spring Life Lyrics,' p 114:

”Aums, dark cedars and pines”

1873 ATrollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' c xiii p 209:

”The eternal gu evidence of Australian ugliness The guh neither is it by any liest, of trees”

1877 F v Muller, `Botanic Teachings,' p 7:

”The vernacular naiven as that of most others of our native plants, on which popular appellations have been bestowed Indeed our wattles uu of the word); whereas the main exudation from the stems and branches of all eucalypts hardens to a kino-like substance, contains a large proportion of a particular tannin (kino-tannic acid), and is to a great extent or entirely soluble in alcohol, thus very different froum”

1884 R L A Davies, `Poems and Literary Remains,' p 176:

”Golden, 'rand titanic forulory of the sun, In golden robes attired, A grand priesthood of the sun”

1889 P Beveridge, `Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina,'

p 61:

”Nearly all the eucalyptus species exude gum, which the natives utilise in the fabrication of their various weapons as Europeans do glue The um; these the natives prefer before all other kinds when obtainable, they being less brittle and more adhesive than any of the others”

i891 `Guide to Zoological Gardens, Melbourne':

”This is an exact representation of the camps which were scattered over the country not inal lords of the soil The beautiful she-oak and red-gum forest that used to clothe the slopes of Royal Park was a very favourite caular source of food supply The hollows of this tree contained the sleek and sleepy opossuht of day and despatched by a blow on the head It was to the honey-laden blossoms of this tree that the noisy cockatoos and parrots used to flock

Let the kangaroo be wary and waterfowl shy, but whilst he had his beloved guht-hearted black”

1892 `The Times,' [Reprint] `Letters frou out the conception of anything but its own lightly-tilooland with the name of forest land, for the trees are thinly scattered, their long leaves hang vertically froh with sufficient force to prorass beneath The whole would be indescribably commonplace, but that the vastness beco quotations illustrate special uses of the word in composition

Apple Gum--

1847 L Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p 283:

”On the srew”

Ibid c viii p 264:

”Another Eucalyptus with a scaly buttbut with smooth upper trunk and cordate ovate leaves, which was also new to um”

Blue Gum--

1802 DCollins, `Account of New South Wales,' vol ii p 235:

”The blue gum, she-oak, and cherry-tree of Port Jackson were common here”