aneura).
Lawson, "The Star of Australasia": `Jackeroo' -- a "new chum",
or person recently arrived in Australia, who goes to work on a station
to gain experience.
`Push' -- a gang of larrikins, or city roughs.
Lawson, "Middleton's Rouseabout": `Rouseabout' -- a man who does
general work on a station.
Lawson, "The Vagabond": `Flax' -- a native New Zealand plant
yielding a strong fibre (Phormium tenax, N. O. Liliaceae).
`Tussock' -- a native grass, common in New Zealand (Lomandra longifolia).
R. Quinn, "The Lotus-Flower": `Harbour' -- Sydney Harbour.
Wright, "An Old Colonist's Reverie": `Whare' -- Maori name
for a hut or house.
`Kowhai' -- the Locust tree (yellow Kowhai), and the Parrot-bill
(scarlet Kowhai) -- N.Z. flowering trees.
`Rata' -- a remarkable New Zealand tree with crimson flowers
(Metrosideros robusta), which often starts from a seed
dropped in the fork of a tree, grows downward to the earth,
and, taking root there, winds itself closely round the supporting tree
and eventually destroys it.
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