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Definition of Hulsea
1. Noun. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs; Pacific coast of the northwestern United States.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Alpine Gold, Alpine Hulsea, Hulsea Algida, Dwarf Hulsea, Hulsea Nana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hulsea
Literary usage of Hulsea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"hulsea, Torr. & Gray. Head many-flowered, with numerous narrow pistillate rays
and very many disk- flowers ; all fertile. Involucre hemispherical or broader ..."
2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"hulsea carnosa Rydb. Mem. NY Bot. Gard. 1: 423. 1900. Very fleshy; stems from
creeping rootstocks and a deep thick root, in big clumps, 1.5-3 dm. high, ..."
3. Our National Parks by John Muir (1901)
"The yellow-flowered hulsea is eight to twelve inches high, stout, erect, ...
It is never far from hulsea, growing at elevations of between eleven and ..."
4. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany edited by Amos Arthur Heller, Patrick Beveridge Kennedy (1912)
"hulsea caespitosa Nelson and Kennedy, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 19: 38. ... Figure 3
hulsea algida Gray The original description is somewhat confusing in the ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"hulsea nan«. ( XH) but some from Trop. Afr. and one from Arabia. ... hulsea (Dr.
GW Hülse, of Louisiana, who collected in California). Composite. ..."
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