24 AUSTRALIAN BOTANY. 



sionally the settlers, eat the young leaves of the cabbage 

 and bangalo 1 palms. 



Note. — The Sydney Town and Country Journal, when 

 publishing the first edition of this work in 1880, added 

 the following footnote to the above lesson :— 



1 We think it advisable here to remark, for the sake 

 of our young friends and others desirous of making 

 themselves familiar with the terms used to designate 

 the various parts, and forms of parts of plants, and 

 which may be termed the A B C of botany, the ad- 

 visability of copying on paper both the text and the 

 diagrams, as well as copying from nature the corre- 

 sponding parts of other plants, thus fixing in the mind 

 the matter contained in the lessons, and at the same 

 time acquiring skill in sketching. Each lesson should 

 be thoroughly understood and mastered before pass- 

 ing on to the next, and after this they should be fre- 

 quently recapitulated until the terms can be used with 

 facility in common conversation. In fact, most of 

 the words are in reality English words, such as 

 should be familiar to every person supposed to be 

 respectably acquainted with his or her mother tongue. 

 They are also such as should be employed by educated 

 persons of every class in familiar conversation on topics 

 suitable for their use, and do not necessarily imply botanical 

 knowledge on the part of those who employ, or of those 

 who hear and understand them.' 



1 Often spelt bangalow. 



