t."

1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' c. i. p. 28:

"The shepherd's wife kindly gave us the invariable mutton-chop
and damper and some post-and-rail tea."

1883. Keighley, `Who are you?' p. 36:

"Then took a drink of tea. . . .
Such as the swagmen in our goodly land
Have with some humour named the `post-and-rail.'"

<hw>Potato-Fern</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fern (<i>Marattia
fraxinea</i>, Smith) with a large part edible, sc. the basal
scales of the frond. Called also the <i>Horseshoe-fern</i>.

<hw>Potato, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. a sort of Yam, <i>Gastrodia
sesamoides</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Orchideae</i>.

1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 131:

"Produces bulb-tubers growing one out of another, of the size,
and nearly the form, of kidney potatoes; the lowermost is
attached by a bundle of thick fleshy fibres to the root of the
tree from which it derives its nourishment. These roots are
roasted and eaten by the aborigines; in taste they resemble
beet-root, and are sometimes called in the colony native
potatoes."

1857. F. R. Nixon, `Cruise of the Beacon,' p. 27:

"And the tubers of several plants of this tribe were largely
consumed by them, particularly those of <i>Gastrodi
sessamoides</i> [sic], the native potato, so called by the
colonists, though never tasted by them, and having not the most
remote relation to the plant of that name, except in a little
resemblance of the tubers, in shape and appearance, to the
kidney potato."

<hw>Potoroo</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal name for a
<i>Kangaroo-Rat</i> (q.v.). See also <i>Potorous</i>
and <i>Roo</i>.

1790. John White, `Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales,'
p. 286:

"The Poto Roo, or Kangaroo Rat." [Figure and description.]
"It is of a brownish grey colour, something like the brown or
grey rabbit, with a tinge of a greenish yellow. It has a pouch
on the lower part of its belly."

<hw>Potorous</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the genus
of the <i>Kangaroo-Rats</i> (q.v.). The aboriginal name was
<i>Potoroo</i>; see <i>Roo</i>. They are also called
<i>Rat-Kangaroos</i>.

<hw>Pouched-lion</hw>, or <hw>Marsupial Lion</hw>, <i>n</i>.
a large extinct <i>Phalanger</i> (q.v.), <i>Thylacoleo
carnifex</i>, Owen. The popular name was given under the idea,
derived from the presence of an enormous cutting-tooth, that
the animal was of fierce carnivorous habits. But it is more
generally regarded as closely allied to the phalangers, who are
almo