SAXIFRAGACEAE. 



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JAMESIA. 

 (Family Saxifragaceae). 



Shrubs : deciduous. Twigs 

 rounded or slightly 4-sided, with 

 quickly exfoliating bark: pith 

 moderate, rounded, pale brown, 

 continuous. Buds solitary, ses- 

 sile, with 1 pair of white-hairy 

 scales, the terminal rather large, 

 the lateral small or suppressed. 

 Leaf-scars opposite, narrowly U- 

 shaped, white-ciliate, low, meeting: 

 bundle-traces 3, small: stipule- 

 scars lacking. (Edwinia). 



Winter -studies of Jamesia 

 americana are given by Schneider, 

 f. 190. 



The woody genera which are as- 

 sembled here as representing the 

 family Saxifragaceae in accord- 

 ance with the views of excellent 

 botanists, are considered by others 

 to differ too greatly for this union 



with the herbs, to which they would restrict the name Saxi- 

 fragaceae. These authors employ the family name Iteaceae 

 for the genus Itea, Grossulariaceae for Ribes, and Hydran- 

 geaceae for the remainder. 



Both Jamesia and Edwinia commemorate Edwin P. James, 

 the discoverer of the plant. The first had been' used earlier 

 for what is not considered a tenable genus: the second was 

 given under the principle that a name once used pertains 

 always and exclusively in its first meaning. 

 Twigs at first light brown and hairy. J. americana. 



