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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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NASMYTHIA. Bot. A genus of the marsh plant or piperwort, Eriocaulon (1835 Hudson in Nova Acta Acad. Leopold. Carl. Nat. Curios. XVII. 12).
[After Sir James Nasmyth of Philiphaugh, Selkirk (†1779), pupil of Linnaeus.]
