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### Author
Stephenson, John (*fl*. 1820-1830), British physician and botanist; MD Edinburgh.
**Abbreviated name**: *Stephenson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Stephenson*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 325; BB p. 287; BM 1: 350, 5: 2016; Desmond p. 583; GR p. 428; Jackson p. 201; Langman p. 721; NI 1891; Plesch p. 416; PR 8946, ed. 1: 9906; Rehder 3: 57; Tucker 1: 668.
#### Eponymy
The etymology of *Stephensoniella* Kashyap (1914) was not given.
### Publications
##### n.13.011. Medical botany
**Title**
*Medical botany*: or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeias: comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain... London (John Churchill,...) 1831. 4 vols. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Med. bot.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*. James Morss Churchill (*fl*. 1830-1840).
*1*: 1831 (p. xi: 5 Jul 1831; plates dated), p. \[i-xvi\], *pl. 1-48* with text sign. B-Z.
*2*: 1831, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 49-95*, with text sign. B-X2.
*3*: 1831, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 96-140*, with text sign. X, B-T.
*4*: 1831, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 141-185*, with text sign. U-Nn, indexes \[1-18\].
*Copies*: B-S, G, HH, MO, USDA. – The plates are dated (months of issue) 1827-1831; they are coloured and of drawings by W. Clark(e), C.M. Curtis, G. Reid, G. Spratt, Weddell (see NI 1891).
*New ed*. edited by Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). *Copies*: NY, USDA.
*1*: 1834, p. \[i-viii\], *pl. 1-8, 10-64*, w.t.
*2*: 1835, p. \[i-iv\], *pl. 65-75, 75*\[*bis*\], *67-106, 106*\[*bis*\], *107-125*, w.t.
*3*: 1836, p. \[i-viii\], *pl. 126-185* w.t., p. \[i-xii, index\], \[xiii-xiv, gloss.\], \[xvii-xxii, abbr.\], \[xxiii-xxvi, index\].