, in the Hartz, Corsica, China and Egypt. The most
valuable kind is clear as glass with a slight green tinge."

1889. Dr. Hocken, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,'
p. 181:

"This valued stone--pounamu of the natives--nephrite, is found
on the west coast of the South Island. Indeed, on Captain
Cook's chart this island is called `T'Avai Poenammoo'--Te wai
pounamu, the water of the greenstone."

1892. F. R. Chapman, `The Working of Greenstone by the Maoris'
(New Zealand Institute), p. 4:

"In the title of this paper the word `greenstone' occurs, and
this word is used throughout the text. I am quite conscious
that the term is not geologically or mineralogically correct;
but the stone of which I am writing is known by that name
throughout New Zealand, and, though here as elsewhere the
scientific man employs that word to describe a totally
different class of rock, I should run the risk of being
misunderstood were I to use any other word for what is under
that name an article of commerce and manufacture in New
Zealand. It is called `pounamu' or `poenamu' by the Maoris,
and `jade,' `jadeite,' or `nephrite' by various writers,
while old books refer to the `green talc' of the Maoris."

<hw>Green-tops</hw>, <i>n.</i> Tasmanian name for the Orchid,
<i>Pterostylis pedunculata</i>, R. Br.

<hw>Green-tree Ant</hw>, <i>n.</i> common Queensland Ant.

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 294:

"It was at the lower part of the Lynd that we first saw the
green-tree ant; which seemed to live in small societies in rude
nests between the green leaves of shady trees."

<hw>Green Tree-snake</hw>, <i>n.</i> See under <i>Snake</i>.

<hw>Grevillea</hw>, <i>n.</i> a large genus of trees of
Australia and Tasmania, <i>N.O. Proteaceae</i>, named in honour
of the Right Hon. Charles Francis Greville, Vice-President
of the Royal Society of London. The name was given by Robert
Brown in 1809. The `Century' Dictionary gives Professor
Greville as the origin of the name but "Professor Robert
K. Greville of Edinburgh was born on the 14th Dec., 1794,
he was therefore only just fourteen years old when the genus
<i>Grevillea</i> was established." (`Private letter from Baron
F. von Mueller.')

1851. `Quarterly Review,' Dec., p. 40:

"Whether <i>Dryandra, Grevillea, Hakea</i>, or the other
<i>Proteaceae</i>, all may take part in the same glee--

"It was a shrub of orders grey
Stretched forth to show his leaves."

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