I. Juncus. JUNCACEAE. 105 



bracts ; flowers greenish, in a loose or dense lateral panicle, with an erect bract usually 

 much exceeding it ; perianth 2-3 mm. long, about as long as the obtuse capsule, which is 

 sometimes very small ; stamens 3, rarely 4. 



Southern districts to Flinders Range ; Murray River ; South-East. Summer. — 

 Scarcely differs from the European J. effusus, L. (J. communis, E. Mey), except that the 

 latter has continuous pith, and our plant should, perhaps, be considered an Australian 

 variety. 



II. J. paueiflorus, R. Br. Rather difficult to distinguish from slender specimens of 

 the preceding, but the flowers are fewer and the capsule rather longer than the perianth ; 

 stamens 6 or 3 ; pith interrupted or continuous. 



Same localities and season. 



. 12. J. radula, Buch. Stems in our specimens 10-20 cm. high, slender, somewhat 

 compressed ; basal bracts and the whole plant straw-colored ; panicle lateral, short but 

 loose, the ultimate branches curved and bearing the flowers so as to resemble a scorpioid 

 cyme ; stamens usually 3 ; segments equal, acute, 3 mm. long, of the same length as the 

 obtuse capsule. 



Strzelecki Creek. This is the smooth variety, laevior, Buch. The type, which has the 

 stem scabrous below the inflorescence, came from near the Murray. 



2. LUZULA, DC. 



(Neo-latin, from Italian luzziola, lucciola, the fire-fly : probably alluding to the shining 

 and quivering character of the spikes.) 



1. L. eampestris, DC. Field Woodrush. Perennial with a swollen base, 10-30 cm. 

 high ; leaves grass-like, ciliate with long white hairs, mostly basal and 1 or 2 on the stem ; 

 flowers brown, several in dense ovoid spikes on the unequal filiform branches of an umbel, 

 and 1 or 2 spikes sessile ; bracteoles at base of each flower scarious ; perianth-segments 

 n, equal, acuminate ; stamens 6 ; capsule ovoid, 3-valved, each of the 3 seeds with a 

 hyaline appendage at base. 



Southern districts, especially in the Mount Lofty Range ; Eyre Peninsula ; South 

 East. Aug. -Nov. — Cosmopolitan. 



Family 29— LILIACEAE. 



Flowers regular, bisexual or rarely dioecious ; perianth colored or sometimes scarious, 

 with 8 segments free or united towards the base, usually arranged in 2 rows ; stamens 

 usually 6, inserted at the base of the perianth ; anthers 2 -celled, usually opening inwards ; 

 ovary superior, 3-celled, with 1 to numerous ovules in each cell, arranged on axile placentas, 

 rarely 1 -celled ; styles 3, or united into 1 ; fruit a berry or capsule, usually loculicidal. 

 Perennial herbs, with a bulbous, tuberous, or fibrous rootstock. 



A. Fruit a berry Dianella 1. 



A. Fruit a capsule or rarely dividing into nutlets. 

 B. Style 3-branched. 



C. Flowers bisexual, umbellate Burchardia 2. 



C. Flowers unisexual. 



Flowers few ; leaves flaccid, stem-clasping .... Anguillaria 3. 



Flowers numerous ; leaves rigid Lomandra 4. 



B. Style undivided, the terminal stigma entire or 3-lobed. 



D. Perianth-segments twisted spirally after flowering. 

 E. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. 



F. Petals fringed Thysanotus 5. 



F. Petals not fringed. 



Flowers racemose Caesia 6. 



Flowers corymbose Chamaescilla 7. 



E. Fruit separating into 1-3 indehiscent nutlets. 



Filaments glabrous Corynotheca 8. 



Filaments bearded Tricoryne 9. 



D. Perianth-segments not twisted after flowering. 

 G. Filaments bearded. 



Flowers yellow Bulbine 10. 



Flowers purple or whitish Arthrorodium 11. 



G. Filaments glabrous. 



H. Anthers with papillose appendages Dichopogon 12. 



H. Anthers without appendages. 

 I. Flowers whitish. 



Flowers in globular heads Bartlingia 13. 



Flowers in a long dense spike Xanthorrhoea 14. 



Flowers in a raceme Asphodelus 15. 



I. Flowers blue, solitary, terminal Calectasia 16. 



