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There is considerable difference in their perianths, which 

 may be made up of separate parts, or may be variously 

 combined; but it is always attached below the ovary. The 

 stamens vary in structure, and these differences, often 

 slight, are made use of in classifying them. There is also 

 difference in pistil and fruit. 



Dianella is our commonest form, and is found in all 

 parts. It grows in a tuft with long narrow leaves, which 

 are often recurved on the margin. The flowers are numer- 

 ous, in erect, spreading inflorescences. They are always 

 blue, and generally dark. The fruit is a small dark-blue 

 berry. The perianth is formed of six nearly equal parts, 

 that are but slightly united to one another at the base. 

 They are in two circles, each of three parts, and may be 

 called calyx and corolla if you wish. They are longitudin- 

 ally lined in the centre with three to seven parallel lines. 

 After flowering the perianth gradually withers and falls 

 off. There is no good popular name. Sword Lily is also 

 used for other plants; Blueberry confuses it with Blue 

 Climbing Berry. The stamens are very interesting; there 

 are six, and their anthers are long and usually discharge 

 the pollen through a terminal pore. The filaments have 

 a peculiar thickening that commences close under the 

 anther and extends a longer or shorter distance, according 

 to the species. 



Stypandra is a small denselv-tufted plant, with grassy 

 leaves, common in heathy places. The flowers are few or 

 many, and arranged about the same level ; usually pale- 

 yellow, sometimes blue. The perianth is very much as in 

 Dianella, but twists round the fruit after flowering. The 

 anthers are small, and coil backwards after flowering. The 

 filaments are long, slender, flexed, and covered with minute 

 papillae. The fruit is fleshy. 



Gordon River Lily belongs to the genus Milligania. It 

 grows in the water of some western rivers. The leaves are 

 long, narrow, and flat, and the flowers are cream-coloured 

 and numerous, in spreading masses, growing on a tall 

 stalk. A second species of the genus is found on the 

 mountain plateaux, from Mt. Hartz to the west. 



Blandfordia is a very showy plant. The perianth is an 

 inch long, crimson, tipped with yellow; it is tubular, 

 gradually expanding, with six lobes at the end. There are 

 numerous flowers arranged along on erect stalk. 



Rock Lily grows in grass as well as upon almost bare 

 stone. It is very like an onion in form of leaf, but the 

 numerous flowers are yellow and arranged along a tall 



