Balloon-Vine (q. No luck, no perseverance; and so the place has been set down asa duffer, or, as the old diggers' more expressive term had it,a `shicer. (1) an aboriginal word. Stock-keeper, n.
The plant climbs like ivy to the tops of the tallest trees,and when full-grown weighs many tons, so that a good supplyof the drug is readily obtainable. leucotis, White-eared H. It is the harbinger of spring and genial weather. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings, p.