NATIVE HONEYSUCKLES OR BANKSIAS. 47 
Our Seacoast- Honeysuckle (Banksia integrifolia), which 
advances westward to Port Phillip, and the Sawleaved-Honey- 
suckle (Banksia serrata) of Gippsland are two of the four species 
described by the son of Linné, whereas our commonest plant of 
the genus was subsequently defined by the Abbé Cavanilles of 
Madrid. Fig XX. 
The common 
FToneysuckle, 
(Banksia mar- 
ginata), is a 
middle-sized or 
oftener a small 
tree, retaining 
on poor heath- 
ground shrub- 
by dwarfness. 
The leaves are 
variable from 
broadly linear i YG 
to narrowly SS 
wedge-shaped, iS 
scattered or 
crowded and 
sharply —in- 
dented unless 
oftener quite 
entire, but 
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margin, blunt 
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almost white 
beneath, with 
very subtle and 
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