<hw>Pig-face</hw>, <hw>Pig-faces</hw>, and <hw>Pig's-face</i>,
or <i>Pig's-faces</i>. Names given to an indigenous
"iceplant," <i>Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale</i>, Haw.,
<i>N.O. Ficoideae</i>, deriving its generic name from
the habit of expanding its flower about noon.

1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 133:

"<i>Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale</i>, pig faces; called by
the aborigines by the more elegant name of canagong. The pulp
of the almost shapeless, but somewhat ob-conical, fleshy seed
vessel of this plant, is sweetish and saline; it is about an
inch and a half long, of a yellowish, reddish, or green
colour."

1844. Mrs. Meredith, `Notes and Sketches of New South Wales,'
p. 45:

"Great green mat-like plants of the pretty <i>Mesembryanthemum
aequilaterale</i>, or fig-marigold, adorned the hot sandy banks
by the road-side. It bears a bright purple flower, and a
five-sided fruit, called by the children `pig-faces.'"

1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 132:

"The pig's face is an extremely common production of the
Australian soil, growing like a thick and fleshy grass, with
its three-sided leaf and star-shaped pink or purple flower,
occupying usually a rocky or dry light soil."

1879. C. W. Schuermann, in `The Native Tribes of South
Australia,' p. 217:

"Though this country is almost entirely destitute of indigenous
fruits of any value to an European, yet there are various kinds
which form very valuable and extensive articles of food for the
aborigines; the most abundant and important of these is the
fruit of a species of cactus, very elegantly styled pig's-faces
by the white people, but by the natives called karkalla. The
size of the fruit is rather less than that of a walnut, and it
has a thick skin of a pale reddish colour, by compressing
which, the glutinous sweet substance inside slips into the
mouth."

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 44:

"Pig-faces. It was the <i>canajong</i> of the Tasmanian
aboriginal. The fleshy fruit is eaten raw by the aborigines:
the leaves are eaten baked."

<hw>Pig-faced Lady</hw>, <i>n</i>. an old name in Tasmania for
the <i>Boar-fish</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Pig-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the fish <i>Agriopus
leucopaecilus</i>, Richards., in Dunedin; called also the
<i>Leather-jacket</i> (q.v.). In Sydney it is <i>Cossyphus
unimaculatus</i>, Gunth., a Wrasse, closely related to the
Blue-groper. In Victoria, <i>Hetero