dogwood

n.

various trees and their wood; noneof them the same as those called dogwood in the NorthernHemisphere, but their woods are used for similar purposes, e.g.butchers' skewers, fine pegs, and small pointed woodeninstruments. In Australia generally, Jacksoniascoparia, R. Br., also Myoporum platycarpum, R. Br.In Tasmania, Bedfordia salicina, De C., N.O. Compositae, which is also called Honeywood,and in New South Wales, Cottonwood (q.v.), and the twotrees Pomaderris elliptica, Lab., and P. apetala,Lab., N.O. Rhamnaceae, which are called respectively Yellow and Bastard Dogwood. See also Coranderrk. In parts of Tasmania, Pomaderrisapetala, Lab., N.O. Rhamn/ac?/eae, is also called Dogwood, or Bastard Dogwood.

1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 16:

«There is a secluded hollow of this kind near Kangaroo Bottom,near Hobart Town, where the common dogwood of the colony(pomaderris apetala) has sprung up so thick and tall, that Mr.Babington and myself having got into it unawares one day, hadthe greatest difficulty imaginable to get out after three orfour hours' labour. Not one of the plants was more than sixinches apart from the others, while they rose from 6 to 12yards in height, with leaves at the top which almost whollyexcluded the light of the sun.»

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 11:

«Iron-bark ridges here and there, with spotted gum, withdogwood ( Jacksonia) on a sandy soil.» (p. 20): «Asecond creek, with running water, which from the number ofdogwood shrubs ( Jacksonia), in the full glory of theirgolden blossoms, I called `Dogwood Creek.'»

1894. `Melbourne Museum Catalogue – – Economic Woods,' p. 46:

«Native dogwood, a hard, pale-brown, well-mottled wood; goodfor turnery.»

See wilga