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William Aiton (17312 February 1793) was a Scottish botanist.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 18 relations: Arabian Peninsula, Botanical name, Botany, Charles Scribner's Sons, Chelsea Physic Garden, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, George Nicol (bookseller), Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hortus Kewensis, Jasmine, Jasminum sambac, Kew, London, Philip Miller, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland, St Anne's Church, Kew, William Townsend Aiton.

  2. 18th-century Scottish botanists
  3. British horticulturists
  4. British pteridologists
  5. People from South Lanarkshire
  6. Scottish gardeners
  7. Taxon authorities of Hypericum species

Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Chelsea Physic Garden

The Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries' Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines.

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Dictionary of Scientific Biography

The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980 by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, with main editor the science historian Charles Gillispie, from Princeton University.

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George Nicol (bookseller)

George Nicol (1740? – 25 June 1828) was a bookseller and publisher in 18th-century London.

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Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

Hamilton (Hamiltoun; Baile Hamaltan) is a large town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Hortus Kewensis

Hortus Kewensis (Latin for "Kew Garden"; abbr. Hort.) is a series of works cataloguing the plant species in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Jasmine

Jasmine (botanical name: Jasminum) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae.

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Jasminum sambac

Jasminum sambac (Arabian jasmine or Sambac jasmine) is a species of jasmine native to tropical Asia, from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia. It is cultivated in many places, especially West Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is naturalised in many scattered locales: Mauritius, Madagascar, the Maldives, Christmas Island, Chiapas, Central America, southern Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles.

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Kew

Kew is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Philip Miller

Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. William Aiton and Philip Miller are 18th-century Scottish botanists.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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St Anne's Church, Kew

St Anne's Church, Kew, is a parish church in Kew in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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William Townsend Aiton

William Townsend Aiton (2 February 1766 – 9 October 1849) was an English botanist.

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See also

18th-century Scottish botanists

British horticulturists

British pteridologists

People from South Lanarkshire

Scottish gardeners

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Aiton

Also known as Ait., Aiton, William, W. Aiton.