"Naked, and not ashamed, the old men grey-bearded and eyes bright, watched the cooking of the fish, and the younger, with the lubras, did the honours of reception."
<hw>Lucerne, Native</hw>, or <hw>Paddy</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Queensland Hemp</i>. See <i>Hemp</i>.
1895. A. B. Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. 95:
"And now lies wandering fat and sleek,
On the Lucerne flats by the Homestead Creek."
<hw>Luderick</hw>, or <hw>Ludrick</hw>, <i>n</i>. an aboriginal Gippsland name for a local variety of the fish <i>Girella simplex</i>, Richards., the <i>Black-fish</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Lugg</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish not identified.
"Lug, a kind of fish." (`Walker,' 1827)
1802. Flemming, `Journal of the Exploration of C. Grimes' (at Port Phillip), ed. by J. J. Shillinglaw, Melbourne, 1897, p. 27:
"Many swans, ducks and luggs."
<hw>Lyonsia</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian plant. See <i>Devil's guts</i>.