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BOTANY. 
or pua, of which bread is made, seems to derive its name 
from the flower dust blown about by the wind, pua, or pua- 
wai, therefore, becomes the general name for all flowers. 
Thus both the root and pollen are used for food and the 
leaves for house building. 
Toitoi. It is to be remarked of this beautiful and orna- 
mental grass that its seed is so minute as scarcely to be 
perceptible, and that it produces a long narrow grain-like 
substance of irregular form and blackish purple color, which 
is often in such large quantities as to be mistaken for a skin- 
less grain, though in reality it is allied to the ergot of rye. 
Aciphylla Taramea. The leaves of the Spaniard are often 
near two feet long, stiff and sharp pointed, they are covered 
with a resinous substance, this the natives collect, and form 
into a fragrant balsam, which is highly prized : for the making 
of it the following is the prescription : — 
Take the moki moki an aromatic fern, the resin of the 
tarata a pittosporum, the kopura a fragrant mountain moss, 
with the aromatic root of the patotara a diminutive epacris, 
the leaves of the karetu a fragrant grass, and the whihoi a 
taupo plant, these are subjected to heat and formed into 
a resinous lump ; to make it into a pomatum this is mixed 
with lard and melted together, it is then strained and is highly 
prized by the Maori exquisites. 
Hieroglyphics found on Pitcairn’s Island, a specimen of a lost language, and a representation 
of an enormous bird. 
