1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 60:
"As [the race] sweeps past the Stand every year in a close bright mass the colours, of the different clubs, are as dazzling and gay in the sun as a brilliant flight of galahs and rosellas."
(2) In Northern Australia, it is a slang name for a European who works bared to the waist, which some, by a gradual process of discarding clothing, acquire the power of doing. The scorching of the skin by the sun produces a colour which probably suggested a comparison with the bright scarlet of the parrakeet so named.
<hw>Rosemary</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the shrub <i>Westringia dampieri</i>, R. Br., <i>N.0. Labiatae</i>.
1703. W. Dampier, `Voyage to New Holland,' vol. iii. p. 138:
"There grow here 2 or 3 sorts of Shrubs, one just like
Rosemary; and therefore I call'd this <i>Rosemary Island</i>.
It grew in great plenty here, but had no smell."
[This island is in or near Shark's Bay]
<hw>Rosemary, Golden</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania to the plant <i>Oxylobium ellipticum</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>.
<hw>Rosemary, Wild</hw>, a slender Australian timber-tree, <i>Cassinia laevis</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Compositae</i>.
<hw>Rose, Native</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Bauera</i> (q.v.).