<i>Vitis hypoglauca</i>,
F. v. M., <i>N.O. Viniferae</i>; called Gippsland Grape in
Victoria.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 66:

"Native grape; Gippsland grape. This evergreen climber yields
black edible fruits of the size of cherries. This grape would
perhaps be greatly improved by culture. (Mueller.)"

<hw>Grape, Macquarie Harbour</hw>, or <hw>Macquarie Harbour
Vine</hw> (q.v.), <i>n</i>. name given to the climbing shrub
<i>Muehlenbeckia adpressra</i>, Meissn. <i>N.O. Polygonaceae</i>.
Called <i>Native Ivy</i> in Australia. See under <i>Ivy</i>.

<hw>Grape-eater</hw>, <i>n.</i> a bird, called formerly
<i>Fig-eater</i>, now known as the <i>Green-backed
White-eye</i> (q.v.), <i>Zosterops gouldi</i>, Bp.

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. pl. 82:

"<i>Zosterops chloronotus</i>, Gould, Green-backed Z.;
Grape and Fig-eater, Colonists of Swan River."

<hw>Grass</hw>, <i>n.</i> In Australia, as elsewhere, the name
<i>Grass</i> is sometimes given to plants which are not of the
natural order <i>Gramineae</i>, yet everywhere it is chiefly to
this natural order that the name is applied. A fair proportion
of the true <i>Grasses</i> common to many other countries in
the world, or confined, on the one hand to temperate zones, or
on the other to tropical or sub-tropical regions, are also
indigenous to Australia, or Tasmania, or New Zealand, or
sometimes to all three countries. In most cases such grasses
retain their Old World names, as, for instance,
<i>Barnyard</i>- or <i>Cock-spur Grass</i> (<i>Panicum
crus-galli</i>, Linn.); in others they receive new Australian
names, as <i>Ditch Millet</i> (<i>Paspalum scrobitulatum</i>,
F. v. M.), the `Koda Millet' of India; and still again certain
grasses named in Latin by scientific botanists have been
distinguished by a vernacular English name for the first time
in Australia, as <i>Kangaroo Grass</i> (<i>Anhistiria
ciliata</i>, Linn.), which was "long known before Australia
became colonized, in South Asia and all Africa" (von Muller),
but not by the name of the <i>Kangaroo</i>.

Beyond these considerations, the settlers of Australia, whose
wealth depends chiefly on its pastoral occupation, have
introduced many of the best Old-World pasture grasses (chiefly
of the genera <i>Poa</i> and <i>Festuca</i>), and many
thousands of acres are said to be "laid down with English
grass." Some of these are now so wide-spread in their
acclimatization,