Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i. p. 76:

"Next to these, as a special Australian type. . . . come the bush-turkeys or mound-makers . . . all these birds have the curious reptilian character of never sitting on their eggs, which they bury under mounds of earth or decaying vegetable matter, allowing them to be hatched by the heat of the sun, or that produced by fermentation."

<hw>Mountain</hw>- (as epithet):

Mountain-Apple-tree— <i>Angophora lanceolata</i>, Cav., <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>.

M.-Ash— A name applied to various Eucalypts, and to the tree <i>Alphitonia excelsa</i>, Reiss.

M.-Beech— The tree <i>Lomatia longifolia</i>, R. Br., <i>N.0. Proteaceae</i>.

M.-Bloodwood—
The tree <i>Eucalyptus eximia</i>, Schau.

M.-Cypress-pine— The tree <i>Frenela parlatori</i>, F. v. M., <i>N.0. Coniferae</i>.

M.-Ebony—
See <i>Ebony</i>.

M.-Gentian— The name is applied to the Tasmanian species, <i>Gentiana saxosa</i>, Forst., <i>N.O. Gentianeae</i>.