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Hooded Lily (Johnsonia lupulina); Family Anthericacaea. While the actual flowers of hooded lily are small and inconspicuous, the large cream flora bracts that surround them are prominent and striking. There delicate palnts are highhly valued as fresh and dried cut flowers. Johnonia is a genus of about five species, all restricted to south-western Australia. DESPCRIPTION: Hooded lily is a tufted herb which may grow up to 75 centimetres high. It has many grass-like fibres 50 to 70 centimetres long. The flower head, which is on a slender stalk, is tipped with an erect pointed bract. It has many overhanging floral bracts which have a papery texture. They are creamy, but may have a pink tinge around the margins. These bracts are 15 to 25 millimetres long, and conceal tiny white flowers, only seven to eight millimetres long. Each flower has six floral segments and three stamens. The fruit is a small capsule containing up to six small black kidney-shaped seeds. DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; The slightly nodding, papery, cream flower heads are characteristic of hooded lily. The closely-related rush-lily (Johnsonia teretifloia), which grows between Albany and the Stirling Range, has shorter leaves, pink floral bracts and purple flowers. HABITAT; Hooded lily usually inhabit sandy soils in heath, shrub land, woodlands or forests. DISTRIBUTION; Hooded lily is found from Collie and Busselton to Waychicup National Park, neaer Albany. FLOWERING TIME; September to December. Bibliography: "Wildflowers of the South Coast" by Judy Wheeler. Publisher Department of Conservation and Management.

EDITORIAL SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED - Geology is the Mother of History - by Anthony Fordham - afordham@nextmedia.com.au - "You may have heard the famous saying 'geography is the mother of history'. it explains the  idea that WHERE you live can have just as be (or even bigger) impact on your culture and society as HOW you live. Got a nice big river andtemperate climate? You'd probably be part of a rich and successful culture. Desert as far as the eye can see? Things are going to be tougher.                                Today geography is less of an excuse for failure. Today on Earth at least, HISTORY is the mother of history. All that ancient baggage still has an effect on hor happy people can expect to be.      When it come to space though, it won't be the WHERE that's important, but the WHAT. Geology - though in space it's probably more correctly just called minerology - will define who is rich and who is poor and who is happy and who lives in despair.