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Definition of Gaultheria hispidula

1. Noun. Slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaultheria Hispidula

Literary usage of Gaultheria hispidula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Erica vagans L. Cornish heath Evergreen shrub Waste ground. Collected at a single site in Schuykill Co. in 1944-1945. • Gaultheria hispidula (L.) Muhl. ex ..."

2. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"... lobata and the Gaultheria hispidula in their roots and stalks." But that oil of wintergreen was used somewhat in domestic medicine about that date, ..."

3. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1818)
"It exists very exactly in some of the other species of the same genus, particularly in Gaultheria hispidula ; also in Spiraea ..."

4. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"... great quantity, with Gaultheria hispidula. There were many large prostrate trees in various stages of decay, and out of their trunks young fir-saplings, ..."

5. The American eclectic materia medica and therapeutics by John Milton Scudder (1885)
"... in constipation or habitual torpor of the bowels, and dyspepsia dependent upon the same causes. HISPIDULA. The Gaultheria hispidula, or Creeping ..."

6. A Second Visit to North America by Charles Lyell (1855)
"... and the wood- sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), in great quantity, with Gaultheria hispidula. There were many large prostrate trees in various stages of decay ..."

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