(3) In Tasmania, to <i>Cassytha pubescens</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Lauraceae</i>.
1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings, p. 43:
"The English mistletoe is the well-known <i>Viscum album</i>, whereas all the Victorian kinds belong to the genus <i>Loranthus</i>, of which the Mediterranean <i>L. Europaeus</i> is the prototype. The generic name arose in allusion to the strap-like narrowness of the petals."
[Greek <i>lowron</i>, from Lat. <i>lorum</i>, a thong, and <i>'anthos</i>, a flower.]
<hw>Mitchell-Grass</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian grass, <i>Astrebla elymoides</i>, <i>A. triticoides</i>, F. v. M., <i>N.O. Gramineae</i>. Two other species of <i>Astrebla</i> are also called "Mitchell-grasses." See <i>Grass</i>.
1883. F. M. Bailey, `Synopsis of Queensland Flora,' p. 660:
"Used for food by the natives. The most valuable fodder-grass of the colony. True Mitchell-grass."
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 78:
"Mitchell-grass. The flowering spikes resemble ears of wheat.
. . . It is by no means plentiful."
<hw>Moa</hw>, <i>n</i>. The word is Maori, and is used by that race as the name of the gigantic struthious bird of New Zealand, scientifically called <i>Dinornis</i> (q.v.). It has passed into popular Australasian and English use for all species of that bird. A full history of the discovery of the Moa, of its nature and habits, and of the progress of the classification of the species by Professor Owen, from the sole evidence of the fossil remains of its bones, is given in the Introduction to W. L. Buller's `Birds of New Zealand,' Vol. i. (pp. xviii-xxxv).