In Australia, it is applied to the shellof Nerita atrata, Lamarck, a marine mollusc of smallsize and black colour used for necklaces, bracelets, andin place of the beads of a rosary. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p. 35: No species of the genus to which this bird belongs is morewidely and generally distributed than the spotted pardalote,Pardalotus punctatus.
45: Great green mat-like plants of the pretty Mesembryanthemumaequilaterale, or fig-marigold, adorned the hot sandy banksby the road-side. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants. Domett, `Ranolf,' p. (In New Zealand)-- P.
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