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thace.e.) Pp. 59, 200. — A true parasitical plant, chiefly 

 found in forests. The Mistletoes, like most parasites, are in- 

 discriminate in their selection of trees, and gradually destroy 

 them. The genus is represented in Australia by about 

 twenty species, some of them very beautiful, bearing scarlet 

 flowers. They are generally found on the Eucalypts, Acacias, 

 tea-tree, etc. Those curious bunches of leaves so often 

 seen at the end of Gum-tree branches are w T ell-developed 

 specimens of this plant. One of the most common of the 

 Australian Mistletoes is Loranthus celastroides, frequently 

 found on the Sheoak or Forest-oak ( Casuarina). The Mistle- 

 toe is troublesome in orchards and other plantations ; apple 

 and pear trees are particularly liable to become its hosts. 



Moreton Bay Fig. — See Frontispiece ; also Glossary, ' Fig.' 



Moreton Bay Trumpet Jasmine.— TECOMA JAS- 

 MINOIDES. (Natural Order, Bignoniace/E.) P. 29. — A 

 beautiful, glabrous, evergreen climber, common on the river 

 banks of Queensland and New South Wales. It bears a 

 profusion of trumpet-shaped flowers, generally of a delicate 

 white or flesh colour, the centre being of a purplish crimson. 



Moreton Bay Pine.— ARAUCARIACUNNINGHAMII. 

 (Natural Order, Conifers.) P. 23. — A magnificent timber 

 tree, frequently met with on the banks of rivers at their 

 confluence with the sea, but often found a considerable dis- 

 tance inland in the colonies of Queensland and New South 

 Wales. Its timber is largely used for flooring-boards, etc. 

 In favourable situations it reaches 200 feet in height. It is 

 of quick, though erratic growth ; sometimes making shoots 8 

 or 10 feet long during a season, without throwing out lateral 

 branches ; at others, branching at a distance of 2 or 3 feet. 



Moss.— SPHAGNUM. (Natural Order, Musci or Mosses.) 



