rs was either--<i>Leptospermum
scoparium</i>, R. and G. Forst.,

or
<i>L. lanigerum</i>, Smith.

The species most used for infusions was--

<i>L. fravescens</i>, Smith (syn. <i>L. thea</i>, Willd.,
and <i>Melaleuca thea</i>, Willd.).

The <i>Coast Tea-tree</i>, common on the Victorian shores,
and so useful as a sand-binder, is--

<i>L. laevigatum</i>, F. v. M.

The <i>Common Australian Tea-tree</i> (according to Maiden) is
<i>Melaleuca leucodendron</i>, Linn.; called also <i>White
Tea-tree</i>, <i>Broad-leaved T.-t.</i>, <i>Swamp T.-t</i>.,
and <i>Paper-bark T.-t</i>.

The name, however, as noted above, is used for all species
of <i>Melaleuca</i>, the <i>Swamp Tea-tree</i> being
<i>M. ericifolia</i>, Smith, and the <i>Black</i>,
or <i>Prickly-leaved Tea-tree</i>, <i>M. styphelioides</i>,
Smith.

Of the other genera to which the name is sometimes applied,
<i>Kunzea pedunculata</i>, F. v. M., is called <i>Mountain
Tea-tree</i>, and <i>Callistemon salignus</i>, De C., is
called--

<i>Broad-leaved</i>, or <i>River Tea-tree</i>.

In New Zealand, the Maori name <i>Manuka</i> (q.v.) is more
generally used than <i>Tea-tree</i>, and the tree denoted by
it is the original one used by Cook's sailors.

Concerning other plants, used in the early days for making
special kinds of infusions and drinking them as <i>tea</i>,
see under <i>Tea</i>, and <i>Cape-Barren Tea</i>.

1777. Cook's `Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the
World' [2nd Voyage], vol. i. p. 99:

"The beer certainly contributed not a little. As I have already
observed, we at first made it of a decoction of the spruce
leaves; but finding that this alone made the beer
too astringent, we afterwards mixed with it an equal quantity
of the tea plant (a name it obtained in my former voyage from
our using it as tea then, as we also did now), which partly
destroyed the astringency of the other, and made the beer
exceedingly palatable, and esteemed by every one on board."

[On page 100, Cook gives a description of the tea-plant, and
also figures it. He was then at Dusky Bay, New Zealand.]

1790. J. White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 229:

"Tea Tree of New South Wales, <i>Melaleuca</i> (?)
<i>Trinervia</i>. This is a small shrub, very much
branched. . . . It most nearly approaches the <i>Leptospermum
virgatum</i> of Forster, referred by the younger Linnaeus,
perhaps improperly, to <i>Melaleuca</i>."

1820. C. Jeffreys, R.N., `Geographical