Auto-wiring a List using util schema gives NoSuchBeanDefinitionException

I have a bean that i want to inject with a named list using Spring util namespace <util:list id="myList"> but Spring is looking for a collection of beans of type String instead. My broken test is:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
public class ListInjectionTest {

    @Autowired @Qualifier("myList") private List<String> stringList;

    @Test public void testNotNull() {
        TestCase.assertNotNull("stringList not null", stringList);
    }
}

My context is:

<beans xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
   xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd">

   <util:list id="myList">
       <value>foo</value>
       <value>bar</value>
   </util:list>

</beans>

But I get

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No matching bean of type [java.lang.String] found for dependency [collection of java.lang.String]: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true), @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier(value=myList)}
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:726)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:571)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:412)

Which puzzles me rather as I figured this would be the way it was expected to work.