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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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BURGESSII. Bot. Specif. name of a fungus Leptogium (1840 Montagne in Webb & Berthelot Hist. Nat. Iles Canar. III. 2. 129).
[After John Burgess (1725–95), of Holywood, minister of Kirkmichael in Galloway, correspondent of Linnaeus, a lichenologist.]
