It is about thesame size as a common goose, the plumage a handsome mottledbrown and gray, somewhat owl-like in character. The shepherds sometimes make an infusion of these whenthey are very hard up for tea; but it must be like drinking adecoction of cloves. 82: The capsules of many Dodonaeas are used for hops,and thus the shrubs are known as hop-bushes in Queensland. Guenther says Neochannais a degraded form of Galaxias [seeMountain-Trout], from which it differs by the absenceof ventral fins.