46 Muhlenbcrg^a, Volume 8 



ALPINE PLANTS— VIIL 



By p. Beveridge Kennedy 



Ai,piNE Dandelion 

 HuLSEA ALGIDA Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 548. 1865. 



Hulsea caespitosa Nelson and Kennedy, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 19: 38. 1906. 



One is amazed when first encountering this large yellow 

 flowered plant seemingly growing in an impossible situation 

 among masses of loose volcanic rocks. Closer investigation 

 shows, however, that its long stout dandelion-like root extends 

 for a consideiable distance down into good soil. The leaves are 

 well protected when young with a cottony wool and later by a 

 deme clothing of glandular hairs. 



Figure 3 Hulsea algida Gray ^ 



The original description is somewhat confusing in the state- 

 ment that the heads are "an inch in diameter." When fully 

 expanded, including the rays, they are two inches wide. 



The terms stems, peduncles and leafy stems are also mis- 

 leading as applied to the different species. The plant is com- 

 posed of several tufts of radical leaves from the center of which 



