James Dickson | |
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:James_Dickson.jpg) James Dickson, 1820 engraving | |
| Born | 1738 Kirke House, Traquair, Peeblesshire |
| Died | 14 August, 1822 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation(s) | Nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist |
James (Jacobus) J. Dickson (1738–1822) was a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae, a four-volume work in which he published over 400 species of algae and fungi that occur in the British Isles[1] He is also the editor of the exsiccata work Hortus siccus Britannicus, being a collection of dried British plants, named on the authority of the Linnean herbarium and other original collections (1793–1802).[2]
The plant genus Dicksonia is named after him.
- ^ Jacobi Dickson Fasciculus (-fasciculus quartus) plantarum Cryptogamicarum Britanniæ. MS. notes. 4 fasc. pl. XII. Prostant venales apud auctorem; G. Nicol: Londini, 1785-1801. 4º. (2 copies in the British Library)
- ^ "Hortus siccus Britannicus, being a collection of dried British plants, named on the authority of the Linnean herbarium and other original collections: IndExs ExsiccataID=474077701". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 18 October 2024.