[Goodenia geniculata, Leptospermum myrsinoides, Viola betonicifolia, Caesia corymbosa, Anguilaria dioica, Drosera auriculata, Bulbine bulbosa, Stylidium graminifolium, Viola hederacea] [picture] Plate 11. From the book: The wild flowers around Melbourne

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Figure 1.

GOODENIA GENICULATA. (R. Brown.) Blooms at the beginning of October. Colonists have called this "the native Primrose," for want of a true one. It grows on barren as well as fertile spots, and, consequently, varies much in character.

Figure 2.

LEPTOSPERMUM MYRSINOIDES. (Schlechtendal.) Blooms at the beginning of October. This shrub is restricted to South-east Australia. The leaves are oily like all myrtaceous plants.

Figure 3.

VIOLA BETONICIFOLIA. (Smith.) Blooms in the middle of October. This is one of the few violets whichAustralia possesses. As far as it is known, all the true violets are restricted to the south-east of the continent.

Figure 4.

CAESIA CORYMBOSA. (R. Brown.) Blooms in the middle of September. This bright little Lily looks very pretty, growing in the grass with other small spring flowers. It is found over nearly the whole of extra-tropical Australia.

Figure 5.

ANGUILARIA DIOICA. (R. Brown.) Blooms in the middle of September. Dr. Mueller calls this delicate blossom the "harbinger of Spring," from its being, like the snowdrop, one of the first flowers to greet us at that bright season.

Figure 6.

DROSERA AURICULATA. (Backhouse.) Blooms in the middle of October. It is the crescent-leavesd Sundew, and is commonly called "Catch-fly," from each hair leaf enclosing several insects. It occurs throughout South-east Australia. Australia is richer in Sundews than any other part of the world; some are tall, some climbing; many have large flowers, sometimes yellow or deep red, and in the allied Genus Byblis pure blue.

Figure 7.

BULBINE BULBOSA. (Haworth.) ANTHERICUUM BULBOSUM. (Br.) Blooms at the beginning of October. It is frequent on grass-land in South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, and New South Wales.

Figure 8.

STYLIDIUM GRAMINIFOLIUM. (Swartz.) Blooms in the beginning of October. It is a sensitive plant, and if you touch the columna, or as you see by the drawing, the bent arm in the middle of the flower, it spontaneously shoots out strait and remains so. The species are numerous, especially in South-west and North Australia. Tasmania only possesses three species; and in the whole of South-east Australia there are but three speices.

Figure 9.

VIOLA HEDERACEA. (Labillardiere.) Blooms in the beginning of October. This pretty little violet grows in South-east ASustralia and Tasmania. It is cultivated in English Conservatories. The violets generally are not fragrant, but a friend wrote me word that she found some on the top of Forest Hill that were sweet-scented.