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Mr Brown informs me this is Craspedia uniflora or Forst
Syngenesia Polygamia Segregata
Cal. Common name, unless the floral leaves be considered as seeds. Florets in bundles forming a globular head. Bundles on little fruit stalks. Florets separated membranaceous egg shaped scales.
Partial Husk 1 valve, egg shaped, containing several florets.
Bloss. Individual funnel-shaped, longer than the scales. Tube very long, slender, distended at the base. Border funnel shaped, with 5 or 6 reflected segments.
Stam. Filaments 5, hairlike, as long as the tube Anthers forming a hollow cylinder, with 5 teeth.
Pist. Germen very small. Style thread shaped as long as the stamens with a small gland at its base Summits 2 expanding.
S. Vess none, the seeds enclosed by the membranaceous scales.
Seeds inversely egg shaped. Down long feathered. Plant mostly from 18 inches to 2 feet high. Root consisting of thick black fibres, Root leaves spear shaped, tapering down into long channelled leaf stalks, & thinly beset with short hairs. Stem leaves few, becoming less as they as-