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Definition of Genus woodsia

1. Noun. Genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Woodsia

Literary usage of Genus woodsia

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

1. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"... in the genus Woodsia, instituted by Dr. Robert Brown purposely to receive them : my own judgment, if deduced from an inspection of the plants only, ..."

2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... on ferns in the first decade of this century gave it a new name. 1813 R. Brown (Trans. Linn. Soc. il : 173) republished* the genus Woodsia based on W. ..."

3. Studies in Natural History by University of Iowa (1899)
"Genus WOODSIA R. Br., Tr. Linn. Soc., vol. II, p. 170, (1812). WOODSIA SCOPULINA DC Eaton. A species which was first found by the writer in the extreme ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"1810, as the initial point for the genus " Woodsia." A reference to this publication reveals the fact that the genus was there called ..."

5. Historia filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number and Organography of by John Smith (1875)
"Another instance of the stipes being jointed above its base is characteristic of the original species of the genus Woodsia, as also in species of ..."

6. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by William Jackson Hooker, William Borrer, James Sowerby (1831)
"WJH THE genus Woodsia was first instituted by Mr. Brown, with beautiful illustrations from the pencil of Mr. Bauer, in the eleventh volume of Transactions ..."

7. An Analysis of the British Ferns and Their Allies by George William Francis (1851)
"... just spoken of, or not, I have been prevented from observing. These certainly attend the genus Woodsia, and are intermingled with the thecae ..."

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