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<hw>Mangrove-Myrtle</hw>, n natonia acutangula, Gaertn

(Stravadium rubrum De C), NO Myrtaceae

1847 L Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p 289:

”As its foliage and the rove, we called it the rove-myrtle”

<hw>Manna</hw>, n the dried juice, of sweet taste, obtained from incisions in the bark of various trees The Australian manna is obtained from certain Eucalypts, especially E viminalis, Labill It differs chemically from the better known product of the Manna-Ash (Fraxinus ornus)

See Lerp

1835 Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p 99:

”Several of the species yield an exudation in the spring and suulates and drops froular shaped snohite particles, often as large as an almond [?] They are sweet and very pleasant to the taste, and are greedily devoured by the birds, ants, and other animals, and used to be carefully picked up and eaten by the aborigines This is a sort of Manna”

1878 R Brough Sines of Victoria,' vol i

p 211:

”Two varieties of a substance calledsecreted by the leaves and slender twigs of the E viminalis from punctures or injuries done to these parts of the tree

It consists principally of a kind of grape sugar and about 5

of the substance called mannite Another variety of manna is the secretion of the pupa of an insect of the Psylla faines At certain seasons of the year it is very abundant on the leaves of E dumosa, or mallee scrub ”

1878 W W Spicer, `Handbook of Plants of Tasmania, p viii:

”The Hemipters, of which the aphids, or plant-lice, are a familiar example, are furnished with stiff beaks, hich they pierce the bark and leaves of various plants for the purpose of extracting the juices It is to the punctures of this and some other insects of the same Order, that the shitethe suum-trees”

<hw>Manna-Grass</hw> See Grass

<hw>Manna-Gum</hw> See Manna and Gum

<hw>Manoao</hw>, n Maori name for a New Zealand tree, Yellow-pine, Dacrydium colensoi, Hook, NO Coniferae

1889 T Kirk, `Forest Flora of New Zealand,' p 192:

”The wood of the ht-brown colour”

<hw>Manucode</hw>, n The word is in English use for the bird-of- paradise It is Malay (manuk-dewata = bird of the Gods) The species in Australia is Manucodia gouldii, Grey See also Rifle-bird

<hw>Manuka</hw>, n the Maori name for Tea-tree (qv) Properly, the accent is on the first syllable with broad a Vulgarly, the accent is placed on the second syllable There are two species in New Zealand, white and red; the first, a low bush called Scrub-Manuka, L scoparium, R and G Forst, the Tea-tree used by Captain Cook's sailors; the second, a tree Leptospermum ericoides, A Richard

1840 J S Polack, `Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders,' p 258:

”This wood, called by the southern tribes hout the country is an especial favourite with the natives, whorods, etc, of this useful timber”

1842 W R Wade, `Journey in Northern Island of New Zealand,' p 75:

”The Manuka, or, as it is called in the northern part of the island, Kahikatoa (leptospermum scoparium), is a mysterious plant, known in Van Diemen's Land as the tea tree”

1843 E Dieffenbach, `Travels in New Zealand,' vol i