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Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p. The nativesdig it out of the roots of shrubs, decaying timber and earth,in which it lives, and eat it with relish. (confined to Tasmania). The leaves or blades when full grown are cutand laid out to dry, forming the common building material withwhich most native houses are constructed.

`Appendix to Journal of House of Representatives,'vol. and colour, an Old-Worldfavorite, that I always know it as the native Lilac(Tetratheca juncea). 103: In the mountain scrubs there grows a very luxuriant kind ofpalm (Calamus Australis), whose stem 107: Geopsittacus occidentalis.