Definition of Jamesonia

1. Noun. Xerophytic ferns of South America.

Exact synonyms: Genus Jamesonia
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jamesonia

James Thurber
James Tobin
James Usher
James Ussher
James Watson
James Watt
James Whitcomb Riley
James William Fulbright
James Wilson
James Wyatt
James fibres
James tracts
Jameses
Jamesian
Jameson
Jamesonia (current term)
Jamesonian
Jamestown
Jamestown Canyon virus
Jamestown weed
Jamestown weeds
Jamie
Jamieson
Jamin Lebedeff system
Jamison
Jammu
Jammu and Kashmir
Jan
Jan.
Jan Amos Komensky

Literary usage of Jamesonia

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

1. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... simple or branched or variously anastomosing, arising from the veins or extending to the parenchyme.—The genera here adopted are, Jamesonia, ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... and in Jamesonia. There is also a very efficient mode of resisting extreme drought which is not shown structurally, viz. the power of retaining vitality ..."

3. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"... Jamesonia cannot be considered otherwise than a truly aberrant genus ; according to my view its nearest relationship appears to be with ..."

4. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1848)
"Prof. W. Jameson, n. 12 ; Columbia, Hartweg, n. 1516. A very different species from Jamesonia pulchra, figured in Icones ..."

5. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"Jamesonia. Sori oblong, on the flabellate veins of the back of the pinnae, not reaching the margin. ..."

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