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* CRASPÉDIA glauca. 
Glaucous Craspedia. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ZQUALIS. 
Nat. ord. ComposiTta CoRYMBIFERE, or ÁSTERACER. 
CRASPEDIA, Forst.— Capitulum circiter 5-florum. Rachis bracteo- 
lata. Pappus uniserialis, plumosus. Herba glabrata, Australasica, erecta, 
simplicissima, monocephala, foliis oblongo-obovatis, foliolis integris scariosis. 
Lessing Gen. Compos. 271. j 
Craspedia glauca. Spreng; syst. 3. 441. [V MT 
Richea glauca. Labillard. Fl. Nov. Holl. de: y 
Herba perennis, glaucescens, pilis quibusdam sparsis, teláque rará 
araneosá vestita. Folia lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, subdecurrentia. 
Caulis in planta culta foliosus, in spontanea subaphyllus ; semper monoce- 
phalus. Capitulum compositum, sphericum, foliolis ovatis acutis involucra- 
tum ; partialia 5-9-flora, pariter involucrata, sed foliolis interioribus invo- 
lucelli membranaceis scariosis. Receptaculum planiusculum, squamis ser- 
ratis membranaceis corollis brevioribus munitum. Pappus basi annularis, 
in setis sedecim plumosis divisus corolle longitudine. Corolla infundibularis, 
lutea. Antheree caudata./ Stylus basi bulbosus, brachiis truncatis canali- 
culatis, apice pulvinatim dilatatis. 
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À curios, hetbaceot plan found in. Van Diemen’s 
Land, whence it was sent by r. James Backhouse: to his 
brother, in whose Nursery at y / Lain in April last. 
It will no doubt be liardy in the warmer parts of Great- 
Britain, but had better be kept in a frame in other places. 
The ample dissections in the accompanying plate give a 
correct idea of its- structure. | Each of the round yellow 
heads is composed ‘of sev smaller heads; and the invo- 
lucre consists principally external leaflets of the small 
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* Said to be do cali a from xpaotedov chines, in allusion, | presume, to the 
feathery pappus./ 
