Jeffersonia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jeffersonia \Jef`fer*so"ni*a\, n. [NL. Named after Thomas
     Jefferson.] (Bot.)
     An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and
     deeply two-cleft leaves ({Jeffersonia diphylla}); twinleaf.
     [1913 Webster]