[Anthropodium laxum, Villarsia parnassifolia, Patersonia glauca] [picture] Plate 3. From the book: The wild flowers around Melbourne

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Figure 1.

ANTHROPODIUM LAXUM. (Sieber.) DICOPOGON. (Kunth.) Blooms in the begining of October. The species ranges from St. Vincent's Gulph to New South Wales. The flowers are fragrant. It might be called, Dr. Mueller says, the "grass Lily."

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VILLARSIA PARNASSIFOLIA. (R. Brown.) Blooms in the middle of November. It is found in swampy ground throughout extra-tropical Australia, and is as well worth naturalising in the south of Europe as the Menyanthes is in Australia. The plants of this genus form a link to Velleyas of the Order Goodeniceae. One species, Villarsia nymphaeoides, is found in Great Britain.

Figure 3.

PATERSONIA GLAUCA. (R. Brown.) Blooms in the middle of November; and grows in Victoria and Tasmania in moist, heathy places. The flower is very delicate, and is injured by a touch. The long sheath-shaped calyx contains numerous cells, in which the embryo blossoms hide themselves till the time of their birth. Each flower lives but a day, when another comes forward and takes its place. There is but one flower of this species in Western Australia (Patersonia xanthina), which is of a bright yellow; the others are all a shade of lilac.