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Something in shape and colour like asmall crab-apple, it is fair enough to the eye, but intaste thoroughly insipid. Ericaceae. Mike's a warrigal he is. The female is much plainer, and would scarcely berecognized as the mate of the former.

62: The notes peculiar to the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus,or platypus, wattle-bird, and leather-head, or old soldierbird, added in no small degree to the novelties. Needle-bush, n. Besides this the spore-casesare so few in number. Parker, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,'p.