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Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers 



Blow Balls 



Seed Globe 



of 



California 

 Dandelion 



" . , . dandelion this, 

 A college youth that flashes for a day, 

 All gold, anon, he doffs his gaudy suit, 

 Touched by the magic hand of some grave bishop, 

 And all at once becomes a reverent divine how sleek. 



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"But let me tell you in the pompous globe 

 Which rounds the dandelion head is couched 

 Divinity most rare." HURTIS. 



