Skirr, n. 615: Native Pear-Wooden Pear. The stem abounds in a mucilaginous substance resembling puretragacanth, which is wholesome and nutritious, and is said tobe used as an article of food by the aborigines in cases ofextreme need. Richards stated that the New South Wales black butt andtallow wood were the most durable and noiseless woods forstreet-paving, as well as the best from a sanitary point ofview.
Curr, `Recollections of Squatting in Victoria'(1841-1851), p. Droseraceae. ore frequent use, owing to thewidespread practice of clearing the primeval forests andgenerally destroying trees. ]Plover, n.