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179: Wattles, so named originally, I conceive, from several of thegenus being much used for `wattling' fences or huts. The pure dingo, which is nowexceedingly rare in a wild state, partly through the agency ofpoison, but still more a sample of a very fine close-grainedwhite timber, considered by him suitable for wood-engravingpurposes, obtained in a defile of Mount Wellington. daktulos, a finger, and psilos, bare.
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