5:

"The creeks were bankers, and the flood
Was forty miles round Bourke."

Ibid. p. 100:

"Till the river runs a banker,
All stained with yellow mud."

<hw>Banksia</hw>, <i>n</i>. "A genus of Australian shrubs with
umbellate flowers,--now cultivated as ornamental shrubs in
Europe." (`O.E.D.') Called after Mr. Banks, naturalist of the
<i>Endeavour</i>, afterwards Sir Joseph Banks. The so-called
<i>Australian Honeysuckle</i> (q.v.). See also
<i>Bottle-brush</i>.

1790. J. White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 221:

"The different species of banksia. The finest new genus
hitherto found in New Holland has been destined by Linnaeus,
with great propriety, to transmit to posterity the name of Sir
Joseph Banks, who first discovered it in his celebrated voyage
round the world."

1798. D. Collins, `Account of English Colony in New South
Wales,' p. 557:

"A few berries, the yam and fern root, the flowers of the
different banksia, and at times some honey, make up the whole
vegetable catalogue."

1829. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of the Linnaean
Society,' vol. xv. p. 312:

"Scrubs where the different species of banksia are found, the
flowers of which I (Mr. Caley) have reason to think afford it
sustenance during winter."

1833. C. Sturt, `South Australia,' vol. ii. c. ii. p. 30:

"Some sandhills . . . crowned by banksias."

1845. J. Q. Balfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 39:

"Many different species of banksia grow in great plenty in the
neighbourhood of Sydney, and from the density of their foliage
are very ornamental."

1846. L. Leichhardt, quoted by J. D. Lang, `Cooksland,' p. 331:

"The table-land is covered by forests of stringy-bark, of
melaleuca-gum, and banksia."

1851. `Quarterly Review,' Dec., p. 40:

"In this they will find an extremely rich collection of
bottle-brush-flowered, zigzag-leaved, grey-tinted, odd-looking
things, to most eyes rather strange than beautiful,
notwithstanding that one of them is named <i>Banksia
speciosa</i>. They are the `Botany Bays' of old-fashioned
gardeners, but are more in the shrub and tree line than that of
flowering pots. <i>Banksia Solandei</i> will remind them to
turn to their `Cook's Voyages' when they get home, to read how
poor Dr. Solander got up a mountain and was heartily glad to get
down again."

1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings,' p. 46:

"The banksias are of historic interest, inasmuch as the genus
was dedica