Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

<hw>Honeysuckle</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the <i>Banksias</i> (q.v.); also called <i>Bottle-brush</i> (q.v.). The species are—

Coast Honeysuckle—
<i>Banksia integrifolia</i>, Linn.

Common H.—
<i>B. marginata</i>, Cav.

Heath H.—
<i>B. serrata</i>, Linn.

New Zealand H.—
<i>Knightia excelsa</i>, R.Br.

Silvery H.—
<i>Grevillea striata</i>, R.Br.

Tasmanian H.—
<i>Banksia margirata</i>, Cav. /sic. Probably marginata/

1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 125:

"Some scattered honeysuckles, as they, are called, but which, being specimens of a ligneous evergreen shrub (<i>Banksia Australis</i>), my English reader will please not to assimilate in his mind's eye in any respect with the woodbine."

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 84: