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I So. Vitis hypoglauea, F. v. Mueller. 
THE NATIVE GRAPE-VINE. Natural Order- 
Viniferce . 
East Gippsland. It attains to the size of a tree, with a com- 
paratively stout stem. Wood soft and spongy, and of a <mev 
colour. & - 
181 • Xanthorrhoea Australis, R. Brown. 
GRASS-TREE. Natural Order — Liliacea. 
In some heathy tracts extremely abundant. Stem varying from 
a few feet to 10 feet in height, usually crooked. The fragrant 
resin from this species, which is soluble in spirit, is of a deep 
amber colour, and is employed for staining wood to imitate 
cedar, for preparing varnishes, and as a source of picric acid. 
