wers. The blossoms at the proper
seasons yield a great quantity of honey, which on a dewy
morning may be observed dropping from the flowers."

1848. Letter by Mrs. Perry, given in Goodman's `Church
in Victoria during Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 83:

"In the course of our journey today we passed through a thin
wood of honeysuckle trees, for, I should think, about three
miles. They take their name from the quantity of honey
contained in the yellow cone-shaped flower, which is much
prized and sucked by the natives--the aborigines, I mean."

1852. Mrs. Meredith, 'My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 164:

"The honeysuckle-tree (<i>Banksia latifolia</i>) is so
unreasonably named . . . so very unlike any sort or species of
the sweet old flower whose name it so unfittingly bears. . . .
The blossoms form cones, which when in full bloom, are much the
size and shape of a large English teazel, and are of a greenish
yellow. . . . The honeysuckle trees grow to about thirty feet
in height."

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 10:

"<i>Banksia</i>, spp., <i>N.O. Proteaceae</i>. The name
`honeysuckle' was applied to this genus by the early settlers,
from the fact that the flowers, when in full bloom, contain, in
a greater or lesser quantity, a sweet, honey-like liquid, which
is secreted in considerable quantities, especially after a dewy
night, and is eagerly sucked out by the aborigines."

1892. A. Sutherland, `Elementary Geography of British
Colonies,' p. 271:

"It [banksia] is called the `honeysuckle' by the people of
Australia, though it has no resemblance to an English
honeysuckle. Many of the banksias grow into stately trees."

<hw>Honeywood</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania to the tree
<i>Bedfordia salicina</i>, DeC., <i>N.O. Compositae</i>; also
there called <i>Dogwood</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Hoop-Pine</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the tree
<i>Araucaria cunninghami</i> or <i>Moreton-Bay Pine</i>.
See <i>Pine</i>.

<hw>Hoot</hw>, <i>n</i>. slang term for compensation, payment,
money; characteristic corruption of Maori <i>Utu</i> (q.v.)

1896. `Truth' (Sydney), Jan. 12:

"There are several specimens of bush slang transplanted from
the Maori language. `Hoot' is a very frequent synonym for
money or wage. I have heard a shearer at the Pastoralist Union
office in Sydney when he sought to ascertain the scale of
remuneration, enquire of the gilt-edged clerk behind the
barrier, `What's the