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140 NATIVE TULIP-TREE OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Myall = Acacia komalophylla, A. Cunn. 
Mallee = Eucalyptus gracilis^ F. Muell. 
Tarnock (drinking-vessel) ; and also a model of Coorong (canoe) 
Bark of Eucalyptus luminal is, Labill. 
Merrin-Merrin = Stone tomahawk. 
Larkoe (the stone). The handle of the tomahawk is of Acacia mollis- 
simi, Willd. 
Earip (Spurious Ironbark-tree) = Eucalyptus Icucoxylon, F. Muell. 
Baggup = Xantkorrhcea australis, E. Br. The peduncle is used for 
the lower portion of spears. 
Baskets of great beauty are made of Xerotes long/folia, R. Br 
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE NATIVE TULIP-TREE OF 
NEW SOUTH WALES (TELOPEA SPECIOSISSIMA). 
By George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S., etc. 
Since my last communication on the " Waratah " or " native Tulip- 
tree " of New South Wales (published in the c Journal of Botany ' for 
December, 1865), I have had frequent opportunities of examining a 
number of Waratah plants, when flowering, both in a wild and culti- 
vated state, during the spring months (September and October) in 
Australia, and, from the result of my more extended observations, I 
must, to a certain extent, correct ray former statement that plucking 
the flowers always destroys the blossoms of tl e following year, for I 
have since ascertained, by careful examination, that it generally occurs 
as I had previously stated, but not invariably. In the blossoms per- 
mitted to remain— more particularly in young trees — the flowers of 
the ensuing year are developed with greater certainty and in greater 
profusion. On examining a number of trees when in flower, I feOT" 
the blossoms produced from those on which the flowers of the pre- 
ceding year had been allowed to remain, were more numerous and the 
shoots bore blossoms with greater certainty than in those from winch 
the flowers had been gathered. 
There are many cases recorded in which the floral axis, in P* ace ° 
bearing flowers, produces leaves ; many instances of this kind have oc- 
curred this season among the Waratah plants growing in the Botanic 
