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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

SMITHIANA. Bot. Specif. name for various plants, e.g. Begonia (1951 Yii in Notes Royal Botanic Gdn., Edb. XXI. 44), Lysimachia or loosestrife (1922 Craib in Kew Bulletin 238), Primula (1923 Craib in Notes Royal Bot. Gdn., Edb. XVIII. 99).

[After Sir William W. Smith (1875–1956), of Lochmaben, Keeper of Edb. Bot. Garden and Professor of Botany at Edinburgh University.]

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