doubtless on
account of its resembling that tree in the shape of its foliage
and in the toughness of its wood, but it is most generally
known as the `titoki.'"

1896. `Otago Witness,' June 23, p. 42, col. 2:

"The saddling-paddock and the scales are surrounded by a fence
made of stout titoki saplings, on which are perched the
knowing."

<hw>Ti-tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. erroneous spelling of
<i>Tea-tree</i> (q.v.). See also <i>Manuka</i>.

<hw>Titri</hw>, <i>n</i>. corruption for <i>Tea-tree</i>
(q.v.), from the fancy that it is Maori, or aboriginal
Australian. On the railway line, between Dunedin and
Invercargill, there is a station called "<i>Titri</i>,"
evidently the surveyor's joke.

1895. `Otago Witness,' Dec. 19, p. 23, col. 3:

"Our way lay across two or three cultivations into a grove of
handsome titri. Traversing this we came to a broad, but
shallow and stony creek, and then more titri, merging into
light bush."

<hw>Toad-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. In New Zealand, a scarce marine
fish of the family <i>Psychrolutidae</i>, <i>Neophrynichthys
latus</i>. In Australia, the name is applied to <i>Tetrodon
hamiltoni</i>, Richards., and various other species of
<i>Tetrodon</i>, family <i>Gymnodontes</i>, poisonous fishes.

Toad-fishes are very closely allied to Porcupine-fishes.
"Toads" have the upper jaw divided by a median suture, while
the latter have undivided dental plates. See
<i>Porcupine-fish</i> and <i>Globe-fish</i>,

1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 89:

"The Poisonous or <i>Toad Fish</i> of Van Diemen's Land.
(<i>Communicated by James Scott, Esq. R.N. Colonial
Surgeon</i>). . . . The melancholy and dreadful effect
produced by eating it was lately instanced in the neighbourhood
of Hobart Town, on the lady of one of the most respectable
merchants, and two children, who died in the course of three
hours . . . The poison is of a powerful sedative nature,
producing stupor, loss of speech, deglutition, vision and
the power of the voluntary muscles, and ultimately an entire
deprivation of nervous power and death."

1844. J. A. Moore, `Tasmanian Rhymings,' p. 24:

"The toad-fish eaten, soon the body dies."

<hw>Toatoa</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name of New Zealand tree,
<i>Phyllocladus glauca</i>, Carr., <i>N.O. Coniferae</i>.
The Mountain Toatoa is <i>P. alpinus</i>, Hook.

1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. i.
p. 120:

"The toa toa, a small tree which is much prize