Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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EDMONDSTONIA. Bot. A genus of tropical shrubs, family Violaceae, found in Panama (1852 B. Seeman in Voyage H.M.S. Herald I. 67), also called Tetrathylacium.
[After Thomas Edmonston (1825–46), of Unst in Shetland, naturalist on the Herald where he died.]
