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Fletcher, ofSydney, the Secretary of the Linnaean Society of New SouthWales, have rendered me much help. It is muchesteemed as a food fish, but is, like all mud fishes, rich andoily. 130: Houhere, ribbonwood of Dunedin. The youngest aswell as the oldest trees have the same deformed appearance, andinside the bark is a soft juicy pulp instead of wood, which issaid to be serviceable as an article of food.

46: `They have a down on you,' says Case. Baron Mueller suggests thatthis plant be cultivated for spinach. The origin of the latter name, let me inform myreaders, has no connection whatever with any produce from thetree. Common Opossum-- Trichosurus vulpecula, Kerr.