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Vernacular Names. The only names I have actually heard applied to this 
tree arc " Red Bottlc-biush " and " Water Gum." But most of the Callistemons 
have red filaments, so thac confusion will aiise through use of the name. " Large or 
Drooping Bottle-brush " is suggested, but these names are not free from ambiguity. 
" Water Gum " is in common use for Tristania laurina, and it is a pity to disturb it. 
The name " River Myrtle " has been used in Queensland, but " Myrtle " had better 
be restricted to Myrtus or allied genera. 
Aboriginal Name. " Marum," in use by the aborigines of the Pioneer River, 
near Mackay, Queensland, according to Dr. Griffith, quoted by Bailey. 
Synonyms and Bibliography. 
(a) Metrosideros viminalis (Soland. MSS.) Gaertner, De Fructibus et Seminibus 
Plantarum, Vol. i, p. 171, t. 34, fig. 4, (1788) as follows : " Calyx subhemisph adieus, 
crassus, edentulus. Capsula trilocularis. Semina immatura minuta, angulata." 
(b) Botany of Cook's Voyage (Banks and Solander) edited by Britten. In 
Vol. ii, p. 37, we have Solander's MSS. quoting this species, and at fig. 109 it is named 
C. rigidus R.Br., in error. We have Banks and Solander's specimen, kindly given to 
the National Herbarium, Sydney, by Mr. Brittsn, and it is C. viminalis (Solander) 
Cheel. 
(c) J. E. Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. iii, 273 (1797). 
(d) In Persoon's Synopsis Plantarum, Vol. 2, p. 26 (1807), it is also described 
as follows : '" Fol. alternis lineari-lanceolatis, flor. confertis lateralibus pubescentibus." 
(e) Willdenow, Enum. 514 (1809). 
(/) Link Enum. ii, 26 (1822). 
(g) Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii, 490 (1825). 
(h) Mueller Fragm. iv, 53 (1863) as C. lanceolalus (in part), and this applies to 
the following also. 
(t) C. lanceolatus Benth., not of DC. in B. Fl. iii, 120 (1866). 
(?) Bailey, Queensland Flora 168 (1883). 
(k) Maiden, Useful Native Plants of Australia 389 (1889). 
(I) Bailey, Col. Indig. Plants Queensl, 17 (1890). 
(m) J. W. Fawcett, Queensl. Agric. Journ. Feb. 1900, p. 126. 
(n) Bailey, Queensl. Flora 2004 (1902). 
Timber. In the Catalogue of Noi-fchem New South Wales timbers, London 
Exhibition, 1862, two specimens of timber were supplied by our old friend, Mr. 
Greaves (then Commissioner of Crown Lands on the Clarence, and now 
President of the Australian Historical Society) which is probably this species. The 
