and mature states led so able a botanist as Dr. Solander
to consider them distinct plants."

1896. Baldwin Spencer. `Horne Expedition in Central
Australia,' Narrative, p. 98:

"As soon as the came upon the Plains we found ourselves in a
belt of grass trees belonging to a species not hitherto
described (<i>X. Thorntoni</i>). . . . The larger specimens
have a stem some five or six feet high, with a crown of long
wiry leaves and a flowering stalk, the top of which is fully
twelve feet above the ground."

[Compare <i>Blackboy</i> and <i>Maori-head</i>.

<hw>Grayling</hw>, <i>n.</i> The Australian fish of that name
is <i>Prototroctes maroena</i>, Gunth. It is called also the
<i>Fresh-water Herring</i>, <i>Yarra Herring</i> (in
Melbourne), <i>Cucumber-Fish</i>, and <i>Cucumber-Mullet</i>.
The last two names are given to it from its smell. It closely
resembles the English Grayling.

1880. W. Senior, `Travel and Trout,' p. 93:

"These must be the long-looked-for cucumber mullet, or fresh-
water herring. . . . `The cucumber mullet,' I explain,
`I have long suspected to be a grayling.'"

1882. Rev._I. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 109:

"Though not a fish of New South Wales, it may be as well
to mention here the Australian grayling, which in character,
habits, and the manner of its capture is almost identical with
the English fish of that name. In shape there is some
difference between the two fish. . . . A newly caught fish
smells exactly like a dish of fresh-sliced cucumber. It is
widely distributed in Victoria, and very abundant in all the
fresh-water streams of Tasmania. . . . In Melbourne it goes by
the name of the Yarra herring. There is another species in New
Zealand."

1889. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iv. p. 206:

"The river abounds in delicious grayling or cucumber fish,
rather absurdly designated the `herring' in this [Deloraine]
and some other parts of the colony [Tasmania]."

<hw>Grebe</hw>, <i>n.</i> common English bird-name, of the
genus <i>Podiceps</i>. The species known in Australia are--

Black-throated Grebe--
<i>Podiceps novae-hollandiae</i>, Gould.

Hoary-headed G.--
<i>P. nestor</i>, Gould.

Tippet G.--
<i>P. cristataes</i>, Linn.

But Buller sees no reason for separating <i>P. cristatus</i>
from the well-known <i>P. cristatus</i> of Europe. Some of
the <i>Grebes</i> are sometimes called <i>Dabchicks</i> (q.v.).

1888. W. L. Buller