<i>Trachydosaurus rugosus</i>, Gray.

<hw>Styphelia</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name of a genus of
shrubby plants of New Zealand and Australia, of the
<i>N.O. Epacrideae</i>. It contains the <i>Five-Corners</i>
(q.v.).

1793. J. E. Smith, `Specimen of the Botany of New Holland,'
p. 46:

"We adopt Dr. Solander's original name <i>Styphelia</i>,
derived from <i>stuphelos</i>, harsh, hard, or firm, expressive
of the habit of the whole genus and indeed of the whole natural
order."

<hw>Sucker</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in New Zealand to the
fish <i>Diplocrepis puniceus</i>, Rich., family
<i>Gobiesocidae</i>. This is a family of small, marine,
littoral fishes provided with a ventral disc, or adhesive
apparatus. Other genera of the family occur in Australasia.

<hw>Sugar</hw>, <i>n</i>. slang for money. It may be doubted
if it is specially Australian.

1887. J. Bonwick, `Romance of Wool Trade,' p. 273 (quoting
`Victoria, the El Dorado'):

"I hear him sing out `sold again, and got the sugar' (a
colonial slang word for ready money); `half a sheep for a
shilling.'"

<hw>Sugar-Ant</hw>, <i>n</i>. a small ant, known in many parts
of Australia by this name because of its fondness for sweet
things.

1896. `The Melbournian,' Aug. 28, p. 53:

"The sun reaches a sugar-ant and rouses him from his winter
sleep. Out he scurries, glad to greet the warmth, and tracks
hurriedly around. He feels the sun, but the cold damp ground
tells him the time is not yet come when at evening he will
sally forth in long columns over the soft warm dust in search
of the morrow's meal; so, dazzled by the unaccustomed glare, he
seeks his hiding-place once more."

<hw>Sugar-bag</hw>, <i>n</i>. nest of honey, and the honey.

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 67:

"The regular sharp chop-chop of the tomahawks could be heard
here and there, where some of them had discovered a sugar-bag
(nest of honey) or a 'possum on a tree."

Ibid. vol. ii. p. 129:

"The tiny bee which manufactures his adored chewgah-bag."

[Footnote: "Sugar-bag--the native pigeon-English word for
honey."]

<hw>Sugar-Grass</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian grass,
<i>Erianthus fulvus</i>, Kunth., <i>N.O. Gramineae</i>.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 106:

"The `Sugar Grass' of colonists, so called on account of its
sweetness; it is highly productive, and praised by
stockowners. Cattle eat it close down, and therefore it