</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Lauraceae</i>;
for other names see <i>Beech</i>.

In Tasmania, the name Native Laurel is applied to <i>Anopterus
glandulosus</i>, Lab., <i>N.O. Saxifrageae</i>. Peculiar to
Tasmania.

The New Zealand Laurel is <i>Laurelia novae-zelandiae</i>;
called also <i>Sassafras</i>.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 292:

"Native Laurel, [also called] `Mock Orange.' This tree is well
worth cultivating on a commercial scale for the sake of the
sweet perfume of its flowers."

<hw>Lavender, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian tree,
<i>Styphelia australis</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Epacrideae</i>.

<hw>Lawyer</hw>, <i>n</i>. One of the English provincial uses
of this word is for a thorny stem of a briar or bramble. In
New Zealand, the name is used in this sense for the <i>Rubus
australis</i>, <i>N.O. Rosaceae</i>, or Wild Raspberry-Vine
(Maori, <i>Tataramoa</i>). The words <i>Bush-Lawyer</i>,
<i>Lawyer-Vine</i>, and <i>Lawyer-Palm</i>, are used with the
same signification, and are also applied in some colonies to
the <i>Calamus australis</i>, Mart. (called also <i>Lawyer-
Cane</i>), and to <i>Flagellaria indua</i>, Linn,, similar
trailing plants.

1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery
and Exploration of Australia,' vol. ii. p. 157:

"<i>Calamus Australis</i>, a plant which Kennedy now saw for
the first time. . . It is a strong climbing palm. From the
roots as many as ninety shoots will spring, and they lengthen
out as they climb for hundreds of feet, never thicker than a
man's finger. The long leaves are covered with sharp spines;
but what makes the plant the terror of the explorers, is the
tendrils, which grow out alternately with the leaves. Many of
these are twenty feet long, and they are covered with strong
spines, curved slightly downwards."

1867. F. Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p. 135:

"<i>Rubus Australis</i>, the thorny strings of which scratch
the hands and face, and which the colonists, therefore, very
wittily call the `bush-lawyer.'"

1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p. 71:

"Torn by the recurved prickles of the bush-lawyer."

1889. Vincent Pyke, `Wild Will Enderby,' p. 16:

"Trailing `bush-lawyers,' intermingled with coarse bracken,
cling lovingly to the rude stones."

1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 103:

"In the mountain scrubs there grows a very luxuriant kind of
palm (<i>Calamus Australis</i>), whose stem of a finger's