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and two petals are free, and more or less spreading. The 

 labellum is broad and concave from side to side, convex in 

 the long direction, where it tapers to a point; the surface 

 and sides are variously clothed with papillae. It is 

 mounted on an irritable stalk, and the column is formed 

 also very much as in Pterostylis. 



Another common genus is Thelymitra, which has such 

 regular flowers that the common form is often called Native 

 Hyacinth. This is a handsome plant, sometimes 2 feet 

 high, with numerous rather large flowers, blue, pink, 

 yellow, or white, often spotted- All six segments of the 

 perianth are about equal, and spreading. The column is 

 short, with the nectary, stigma, and anthers close above 

 one another. It has a wing running down each side, at 

 the upper end of which arises a lobe terminating in a 

 brush, club, or other adornment, according to species. 



Parson-in-the-Pulpit is a pretty little spring flower. It 

 has a solitary or sometimes two blooms on a slender stalk, 

 of a pretty mauve or paler shade, about an inch across. 

 Three sepals and two petals are similar and spreading. 

 The labellum is short and convex, and from its base there 

 is a little erect, usually yellow, lobe, which gives its name 

 to the flower. The column is the same in structure as in 

 Caladenia- 



The Tigers are common in spring and summer. They 

 are yellow, generally blotched with reddish-brown. The 

 flowers are fairly large, and generally there are many 

 on an erect stem. They are very irregular. The upper 

 sepal is broad, and over-arches the column; the lower one 

 are long and narrow. The lateral petals are broad and 

 spreading; the third petal or labellum is broad, rather 

 short, and three-lobed. The column is very short, and 

 bears a lobelike wing on each side. The genus is Diuris, 

 and we have five species, four of which are very similar, 

 but the fifth would be taken for a different genus. It is 

 Diuris pedunculata, common in grassy woods. It bears 

 one to three pale or orange-yellow flowers, the segments 

 of which are all directed forwards. 



Fly Orchids are also common. They are so named 

 because there are numerous small, sometimes very small, 

 flowers massed along the upper part of an erect stem. 

 They have no likeness to flies. The perianth segments 

 call for no special comment, but they can be at once dis- 

 tinguished from other similar Orchids by the labelium 

 being above and the column below. This is the normal 

 position, and in those Orchids where the other condition 



