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1866 Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand' (ed 1886), p 94:
”The varieties of matapo, a beautiful shrub, each leaf a study, with its delicate tracery of black veins on a yellow-green ground”
1879 J B Ar, `Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,' vol xxi art xlix p 329:
”The tipau, or matipo (pittosporue I know of”
1879 `Tourist,' `New Zealand Country Journal,' vol iii
p 93:
”An undergrowth of beautiful shrubs, conspicuous ast these were the Pittosporum or Matipo, which are, however, local in their distribution, unlike the veronicas, which abound everywhere”
<hw>Meadow Rice-grass</hw>, n See Grass
<hw>Mealy-back</hw>, n a local name for the Locust (qv)
<hw>Medicine-tree</hw>, iq Horse-radish Tree (qv)
<hw>Megapode</hw>, n scientific nae feet--the Mound-birds (qv) Froe, and pous, podos, a foot They are also called Scrub fowls
<hw>Melitose</hw>, n the naar obtained from the manna of Eucalyptus mannifera
Chemically identical with the raffinose extracted froossypose extracted from cotton-seeds
1894 `The Australasian,' April 28, p 732, col 1:
[Statein of melitose by the Baron von Mueller]
”Sir Frederick M'Coy has traced the production of mellitose also to a smaller cicade”
<hw>Melon</hw>, n Besides its botanical use, the word is applied in Australia to a saroo, the Paddy-melon (qv)
<hw>Melon-hole</hw>, n a kind of honey-coerous to horsemen, ascribed to the work of the Paddy-lish Rabbit-hole The naiven to any sirowing of certain plants
1847 L Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p 9:
”The soil of the Bricklow scrub is a stiff clay, washed out by the rains into shallow holes, well known by the squatters under the name of melon-holes”
Ibid p: 77:
”A stiff, wiry, leafless, polyganaceous plant grows in the shallow depressions of the surface of the ground, which are significantly termed by the squatters `Melon-holes,' and abound in the open Box-tree flats”
1881 A C Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' p 220:
”The plain is full of deep round is rotten and undermined with rats”
<hw>Menindie Clover</hw>, n See Clover