roger gough

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


an absurd name given to thetree Baloghia lucida, Endl., N.O. Euphorbiaceae.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 382:

«Scrub, or brush bloodwood, called also `Roger Gough.'»

1896. `The Australasian,' Aug. 28, p. 407, col. 5:

«Who were Messrs. James Donnelly, James Low, and Roger Goughthat their names should have been bestowed on trees? Were theygrowers or buyers of timber? Was the first of the list anyrelative of the Minnesota lawyer who holds strange views abouta great cryptogram in Shakespeare's plays? Was the last of thethree any relative of the eminent soldier who won the battlesof Sobraon and Ferozeshah? Or, as is more probable, were thenames mere corruptions of aboriginal words now lost?»

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