ond long drawn out."

1896. Dr. Holden, of Hobart, `Private letter,' Jan.:

"There is a curlew in Australia, closely resembling the English
bird, and it calls as that did over the Locksley Hall
sand-dunes; but Australians are given to calling <i>AEdicnemus
grallarius</i> Latham (our Stone Plover), the `curlew,' which
is a misnomer. This also drearily wails, and after dark."

<hw>Currajong</hw> or <hw>Currijong</hw>, i.q. <i>Kurrajong</i>
(q.v.).

<hw>Currant, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. The name is given to
various shrubs and trees of the genus <i>Coprosma</i>,
especially <i>Coprosma billardieri</i>, Hook.,
<i>N.O. Rubiare</i>(e; also to <i>Leucopogon richei</i>, Lab.,
<i>N.O. Epacrideae</i>, various species of <i>Leptomeria</i>,
<i>N.O. Santalaceae</i>, and <i>Myoporum serratum</i>, R. Br.,
<i>N.O. Myoporineae</i>. The names used for
<i>M. serratum</i>, chiefly in South Australia, are
<i>Blueberry Tree</i>, <i>Native Juniper</i>, <i>Native
Myrtle</i>, <i>Palberry</i>, and <i>Cockatoo Bush</i>.

See also <i>Native Plum</i>.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 220:

"Our native currants are strongly acidulous, like the
cranberry, and make an excellent preserve when mixed with
the raspberry."

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

"<i>Leucopogon lanceolatum</i>. A large bush with numerous
harsh leaves, growing along the sea shore, with some other
smaller inland shrubs of the same tribe, produces very small
white berries of a sweetish and rather herby flavour. These
are promiscuously called white or native currants in the
colony."

["The insignificant and barely edible berries of this shrub are
said to have saved the life of the French botanist Riche, who
was lost in the bush on the South Australian coast for three
days, at the close of the last century." (Maiden.) The plant
is now called <i>L. Richei</i>.]

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 19:

"Native Currant. . . . This plant bears a small round drupe,
about the size of a small pea. Mr. Backhouse states that (over
half a century ago) when British fruits were scarce, it was
made into puddings by some of the settlers of Tasmania, but the
size and number of the seeds were objectionable."

<hw>Currant, Plain</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Plain Currant</i>.

<hw>Currency</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) Name given especially to early
paper-money in the Colonies, issued by private traders and of
various values, an