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This resembles our common Broom, but the slender Rush-like branches are not angular, and usually destitute of leaves. The fragrant yellow flowers are produced abundantly in racemes, and when at their best impart to the shrub a very striking and beautiful appearance.
"Hold yourself up, for goodness' sake," she exhorted, and she straightened her own rush-like figure. "Why do you make such a round back? And you blink your eyes as if you were short-sighted. Hm, you should be with my employer oh my, she would make you sit up." She chuckled to herself, her whole slender figure shook with a secret inclination to laugh. "You're so happy," he said slowly.
The large mats used as sails, also for sleeping under in wet weather, are made by the women from the fallen leaves of the pandanus the common basket from the rush-like leaves of Xerotes banksii ? and the water basket from the sheath of the leaf of the Seaforthia palm. The food of these blacks varies with the season of the year, and the supply is irregular and often precarious.
Though as a rule not more than a few inches to a foot in depth, I have seen them in places holding four to five feet of water. Immediately after rain all clay-pans are fresh, before long some will turn salt; those containing drinkable water are often distinguishable by the growth of cane grass which covers the bed, a coarse, rush-like grass of no value as food for stock.
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