rd <i>Rosella</i>, however,
is not a scientific name, and does not appear as the name
of any genus or species; it is vernacular only, and no settler
or bushman is likely to have gone to the Latin to form it.

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. v. pl. 27:

"<i>Platycercus eximius</i>, Vig. & Hors. <i>Rose-hill
Parrakeet</i>; Colonists of New South Wales."

Ibid. vol. v. pl. 29:

"<i>Platycercus icterotis</i>, Wagl. The Earl of Derby's
Parrakeet; <i>Rose-hill</i> of the Colonists [of Swan River]."

<hw>Rosella</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) A bird, <i>Platycercus
eximius</i>, the <i>Rosehill</i> (q.v.).

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 80:

"The common white cockatoo, and the Moreton Bay Rosella parrot,
were very numerous."

1884. R. L. A. Davies, `Poems and Literary Remains,' p. 99:

"Saw the bright rosellas fly,
With breasts that glowed like sunsets
In the fiery western sky."

1890. `The Argus,' June 7, p. 13, col. 5:

"The solitudes where the lorikeets and rosellas chatter."

1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 60:

"As [the race] sweeps past the Stand every year in a close
bright mass the colours, of the different clubs, are as
dazzling and gay in the sun as a brilliant flight of galahs
and rosellas."

(2) In Northern Australia, it is a slang name for a European
who works bared to the waist, which some, by a gradual process
of discarding clothing, acquire the power of doing. The
scorching of the skin by the sun produces a colour which
probably suggested a comparison with the bright scarlet of the
parrakeet so named.

<hw>Rosemary</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the shrub
<i>Westringia dampieri</i>, R. Br., <i>N.0. Labiatae</i>.

1703. W. Dampier, `Voyage to New Holland,' vol. iii. p. 138:

"There grow here 2 or 3 sorts of Shrubs, one just like
Rosemary; and therefore I call'd this <i>Rosemary Island</i>.
It grew in great plenty here, but had no smell."

[This island is in or near Shark's Bay]

<hw>Rosemary, Golden</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania
to the plant <i>Oxylobium ellipticum</i>, R. Br.,
<i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>.

<hw>Rosemary, Wild</hw>, a slender Australian timber-tree,
<i>Cassinia laevis</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Compositae</i>.

<hw>Rose, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Bauera</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Rosewood</hw>, name given to the timber of three trees.
(1) <i>Acacia glaucescens</i>, Willd., <i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>;
called also <i>Brigalow, Mountain Brigalo