ping leaves, called
the `Weeping Gum,' is the most elegant of the family."

<i>White Gum</i>--

1827. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of Linnaean
Society,' vol. xv. p, 278:

"The natives tell me that it [the ground-parrot] chiefly
breeds in a stump of a small White Gum-tree."

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 48:

"The range was openly timbered with white gum."

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 471:

"<i>E. leucoxylon</i>, F. v. M. The `blue or white gum' of South
Australia and Victoria is a gum-tree with smooth bark and
light-coloured wood (hence the specific name). The flowers and
fruit of <i>E. leucoxylon</i> are very similar to those of
<i>E. sideroxylon</i>, and in this way two trees have been
placed under one name which are really quite distinct. Baron
Mueller points out that there are two well-marked varieties of
<i>E. leucoxylon</i> in Victoria. That known as `white-gum'
has the greater portion of the stem pale and smooth through the
outer layers of the bark falling off. The variety known
chiefly as the `Victorian Ironbark,' retains the whole bark on
the stem, thus becoming deeply fissured and furrowed, and very
hard and dark coloured."

<i>Yellow Gum</i>--

1848. T. L. Mitchell, `Tropical Australia,' p. 107:

"We this day passed a small group of trees of the yellow gum,
a species of eucalyptus growing only on the poor sandy soil
near Botany Bay, and other parts of the sea-coast near Sydney."

<i>York Gum</i>--

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. II. c. iv.
p. 132:

"York gum . . . abundant in York on good soil."

<hw>Gum-</hw> (<i>In Composition</i>). See <i>Gum</i>.

1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 134:

"I said to myself in the gum-shadowed glen."

1868. W. L. Carleton, `Australian Nights,' p. 1:

"To see the gum-log flaming bright
Its welcome beacon through the night."

1890. `The Argus,' August 2, p. 4, col. 3:

"Make a bit of a shelter also. You can always do it with
easily-got gum-boughs."

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xvii. p. 201:

"The edge of the long, black, gum-shrouded lagoon."

<hw>Gummy</hw>, <i>n.</i> name given to a shark of Victorian
and Tasmanian waters, <i>Mustelus antarcticus</i>, Gunth., and
called <i>Hound</i> (q.v.) in New South Wales, Victoria, and
New Zealand. The word <i>Gummy</i> is said to come from the
small numerous teeth, arranged like a pavement, so different