Definition of Hulsea

1. Noun. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs; Pacific coast of the northwestern United States.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hulsea

Huitzilopochtli
Huizhou
Hukin
Hukins
Hulance
Huldah
Huldreich Zwingli
Hulett
Hulin
Hulk
Hulkamania
Hulkamaniac
Hulkamaniacs
Hull
Hull's triad
Hulsea (current term)
Hulsea algida
Hulsea nana
Hulsean
Hultgren
Human Genome Project
Human Resource Management
Humber
Humber Bridge
Humberside
Humbert
Humboldt
Humboldt current
Humboldt penguin
Humboldt penguins

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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