number, they are very common on the Eucalypts, and they have
the same viscous qualities as the European <i>Mistletoes</i>.

(2) In Western Australia, to <i>Nuytsia floribunda</i>, R. Br.,
<i>N.O. Loranthaceae</i>, a terrestrial species attaining the
dimensions of a tree--the <i>Flame-tree</i> (q.v.) of Western
Australia--and also curiously called there a <i>Cabbage-
tree</i>.

(3) In Tasmania, to <i>Cassytha pubescens</i>, R. Br.,
<i>N.O. Lauraceae</i>.

1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings, p. 43:

"The English mistletoe is the well-known <i>Viscum album</i>,
whereas all the Victorian kinds belong to the genus
<i>Loranthus</i>, of which the Mediterranean
<i>L. Europaeus</i> is the prototype. The generic name arose
in allusion to the strap-like narrowness of the petals."

[Greek <i>lowron</i>, from Lat. <i>lorum</i>, a thong,
and <i>'anthos</i>, a flower.]

<hw>Mitchell-Grass</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian grass,
<i>Astrebla elymoides</i>, <i>A. triticoides</i>, F. v. M.,
<i>N.O. Gramineae</i>. Two other species of <i>Astrebla</i>
are also called "Mitchell-grasses." See <i>Grass</i>.

1883. F. M. Bailey, `Synopsis of Queensland Flora,' p. 660:

"Used for food by the natives. The most valuable fodder-grass
of the colony. True Mitchell-grass."

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 78:

"Mitchell-grass. The flowering spikes resemble ears of wheat.
. . . It is by no means plentiful."

<hw>Moa</hw>, <i>n</i>. The word is Maori, and is used by that
race as the name of the gigantic struthious bird of New
Zealand, scientifically called <i>Dinornis</i> (q.v.). It has
passed into popular Australasian and English use for all
species of that bird. A full history of the discovery of the
Moa, of its nature and habits, and of the progress of the
classification of the species by Professor Owen, from the sole
evidence of the fossil remains of its bones, is given in the
Introduction to W. L. Buller's `Birds of New Zealand,' Vol. i.
(pp. xviii-xxxv).

1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of New Zealand Language' (Church
Missionary Society), p. 181:

"Moe [sic], a bird so called."

1839. `Proceedings of Zoological Society,' Nov. 12:

[Description by Owen of <i>Dinornis</i> without the name
of Moa. It contained the words--

"So far as my skill in interpreting an osseous fragment may be
credited, I am willing to risk the reputation for it, on the
statement that there has existed, if there does