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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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TOLMI(A)EA. Bot. 1. A genus of the herbaceous wintergreen (1840 W. D. Hooker Flora Bor. Amer. II. 44), now called Cladothamnus tolmiea, of Western America.
2. A type of saxifrage Heuchera (1838 Torrey & Gray Flora N. America I. 582).
[After William F. Tolmie (1812–86), of Inverness, doctor, fur-trader and botanist in Canada.]
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