a shrub, Bauera rubioides,Andr., N.O. Saxifrageae, the Scrub Vine, or Native Rose; commonly called in Tasmania «Bauera,» andcelebrated for forming impenetrable thickets in conjunctionwith «cutting grass,» Cladium psittacorum, Labill.
1835. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 70:
«Bauera rubiaefolia. Madder leaved Bauera. A pretty littleplant with pink flowers. This genus is named after thecelebrated German draughtsman, whose splendid works are yetunrivalled in the art, especially of the Australian plantswhich he depicted in his voyage round New Holland withCapt. Flinders in the Investigator.»
1888. R. M. Johnston, `Geology of Tasmania,' Intro. p. vi.:
«The Bauera scrub . . . is a tiny, beautiful shrub . . . Althoughthe branches are thin and wiry, they are too tough and too muchentangled in mass to cut, and the only mode of progress oftenis to throw one's self high upon the soft branching mass androll over to the other side. The progress in this way is slow,monotonous, and exhausting.»
1891. `The Australasian,' April 4, p. 670, col. 2:
«Cutting-grass swamps and the bauera, where a dog can't hardly go,
Stringy-bark country, and blackwood beds, and lots of it broken by snow.»
1891. W. Tilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 7:
«Interposing the even more troublesome Bauera shrub; whosegnarled branches have earned for it the local and expressivename of `tangle-foot' or `leg ropes.' [It] has been named bySpicer the `Native Rose.'»