Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Gerardia

1. Noun. Genus of annual or perennial herbs with showy pink or purple or yellow flowers; plants often assigned to genera Aureolaria or Agalinis.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gerardia

Literary usage of Genus Gerardia

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

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... represented by the genus Gerardia. gerated (jor'a-ted), a. [Appar. < F. gérer, carry, manage, ..."

2. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1866)
"... Lanik., represents a very distinct type ; it is not an Antipathie, still less a Garganta, and fur it the new genus Gerardia is proposed. ..."

3. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"... which have ever since been especially considered as the types of the genus Gerardia, although great diversity of opinion has prevailed relating to the ..."

4. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, Or, A Systematic Arrangement and Description by Frederick Pursh (1814)
"In South Carolina. Catesby. Q July. vs in Herb. Sherard. Flowers the size and colour of the preceding. While writing the genus Gerardia, I strongly ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1919)
"Plants with pure white corollas are occasional in any species of this genus. Gerardia purpurea parvula Pennell in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 62: 572. ..."

6. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"Those of the cow-wheat resemble in general those of the yellow-rattle. In America species of Agalinis (old genus Gerardia in part) ..."

7. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"... was formerly included in the genus Gerardia, but is distinguished by its yellow flowers. There are several peculiar features about the ..."

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