GLOSSARY. 125 



articles. The vines of Tabilk, the Murray and Hunter 

 districts, and numbers of other Australian localities, have 

 achieved a European reputation. 



Grass Lily. — (Natural Order, Liliace^e.) Pp. 17, 206. 

 — This name is indiscriminately applied to two genera of 

 Liliaceous plants, natives of Australia. One (Arthropodium 

 stfidum) is a tall perennial, bearing panicles of purple 

 flowers. It is plentiful in the fields around Melbourne ; the 

 other (Ccesia vittatd) is a pretty, blue-flowered, dwarfish plant, 

 quite as common as the Arthropodium. Two species of 

 the latter — A. paniadatum and A. minus — are common in 

 some parts of South and West Australia. 



Grevillea. — (Natural Order, Proteace^e.) Pp. 42, 53, 

 171. — A very large germs, comprising some interesting and 

 beautiful Australian flowering shrubs and trees. Nearly 

 200 species have been described, all, with one or two ex- 

 ceptions, indigenous to Australia, and two-thirds of that 

 number belong to Victoria. They are chiefly admired and 

 cultivated for their flowers ; some of them are of a dwarf 

 heath-like habit ; others are trees of a considerable size. 

 The most noticeable is the 'Silky Oak' {Grevillea robustd), 

 a grand timber-producing species, bearing large masses of 

 comb-shaped orange flowers. It is a native of New South 

 Wales and Queensland, where on rich alluvial river banks 

 it often attains a height of over 1 00 feet. 



Gum, or Eucalyptus. — (Natural Order, Myrtace^e.) Pp. 

 16, 18, 20, 26, 32, 40, 81, 85, 86, 87, 88, 195, 199. — Though 

 it is to be regretted that a more appropriate common name 

 than that of ' Gum tree ' was not in the first instance be- 

 stowed upon this extensive family, comprising the principal 

 timber and most stately trees of Australia, still the term 



