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forbid us to refer it to any known genus, and it was, therefore, dedicated to Dr. G. W. Hulse, 
of Louisiana, a zealous cultivator of botany, who gathered it in the mountains of the southern 
part of California, back of San Diego, and sent the specimen to his friend and correspondent, 
Dr. Torrey, The characters of the genus, and the distinctive marks (so far as known) of the 
original species, are here appended. The present plant is only three or four inches high, ex¬ 
cluding the slender shoot or root-stock, which rises through the loose scoria in which it 
grows. 
Hulsea, Torr. & Gray , in Bot. Max. Bound. Saw. ined. Capitulum multiflorum, radiatum; flo- 
ribus radii ligulatis fcemineis, disci tubulosis. Involucrum hEemisphericum ; squamis subtriseria- 
tis membranaceis laxis, exterioribus paulo brevioribus. Receptaculum planum epaleaceum, 
alveolato-dentatum; dentibus brevibus corneis. Ligulm 20-30, lineares. Corolla} fl. her- 
maph. tubo gracili viscoso-glanduloso, fauce cylindracea, limbo 5-dentato, dentibus tringulari- 
ovatis fere glabris. Antheras ecaudate. Styli rami obtusi, longitrorsum puberuli, exappendic- 
ulati. Achenia conformia, linearia, subtetragono-compressa. deorsum attenuata, villosa praeser- 
tim ad margines. Pappus (villis achenii vix longior) e paleis 4 tenuibus liyalinis enerviis latis 
obtusissimis erosis vel fimbriatis. Herbas perennes, viscoso-pubescentes, macrocephalae, alterni- 
folte; caule florifero subaphyllo ; floribus llavis. 
1. H. California : elata; caule vel pedunculo 3-7 cephalo ; involucri squamis linearibus 
apice attenuatis; floribus aureis ; pappi paleis cuneato-rotundis apice truncato eroso-den- 
ticulatis. 
2. H. nana : Vide supra. 
Plate XII, Hulsea nana. Plant of the natural size. Fig. 1, a ray flower; 2, a disk 
flower ; 3, corolla of the last laid open, the stamens, &c., displayed ; 4, some of the glandular 
hairs on the corolla ; 5, branches of the style of the disk flowers; 6, palern of the pappus; 
7, section of a mature achenium ; 8, the receptacle. The details variously magnified. 
Coreopsis Atkinsoniana, Dougl. Bot. Reg. t. 1376. Rocks on the Oregon river. 
Gaillardia aristata, Pursh, FI. 2 , p. 573. Fort Dalles, Oregon river. 
CiLENACTrs Douglasii, Hook. (£• Am. Bot. Beech, p. 354, (to which C. achillesefolia is to be 
joined.) Klamath lake. Flowers white. 
Bahia leucopiiylla, DC. Prodr. 5, p. 656. McCumber’s, Upper Sacramento valley. 
Baiiia lanata, Nutt.; DC. 1. c. & var. tenuifolia. With the last, &c. 
Burrielia tenerrima, DC. Prodr. 5 , p. 663. Sonoma. 
DiciiiETA uliginosa, Nutt, in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 7, p. 383. With the last. 
Selenium autumnale, Linn. var. grandiflorum, Torr. & Gray. Klamath lake and Willa¬ 
mette river. 
Solidago gigantea, Ait.; Hook. Flor. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 2. Banks of Columbia river, 0. T. 
Solidago confertiflora, Nutt.; Hook. Flor. Bor.-Am. 2 ,p. 4. Klamath basin, 0. T. 
Solidago elongata, Nutt. var. McCumber’s, Upper Sacramento. 
Linosyris graveolens, Torr. & Gray , FI. 2, p. 234. Banks of upper Pit river. 
Chrysopsis villosa, Nutt. Gen. 2 , p. 150. Cascade mountains ; a small form. 
Blennosperma Californicum, Torr. & Gray , FI. 2, p. 272. Sacramento valley. 
WYETniA helenioides, Gray , PI. Fendl. p. 82, adn.; var. capitulo multum minore. Hear 
McCumber’s, on the upper Sacramento. The foliage and aspect accord with W. helenioides, 
but the head is only one-quarter the size. The single one gathered, however, is from an axil¬ 
lary shoot, the terminal one being destroyed or lost, and it is not in a condition to permit an 
