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Definition of Jamesonia
1. Noun. Xerophytic ferns of South America.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteridaceae, Pteridaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jamesonia
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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