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### Author
Jameson, William (in S. America: Guilielmo) (1796-1873), Scottish physician and botanist; MD Edinburgh 1818; to Greenland 1818; to South America 1802; at Quito from 1826.
**Abbreviated name**: *W. Jameson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Jameson*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Mainly at [[Collection BM|BM]], ? and [[Collection E|E]], further material in many herbaria (see IH). Location of original herbarium not known.
*Ref*.: Hedge, J. C. and J. M. Lamond, Ind. coll. Edinburgh 95. 1970.
- Acosta-Solis, Naturalistas y viajeros cientificos del Ecuador 26-28. (itin.) (fide Sayre).
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 348. 1975.
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 292; Barnhart 2: 244; BB p. 165; BL 1: 250, 303; BM 2: 924; Bossert P. 194; Clokie P. 189; CSP3: 532-533,8: 12; Desmond p. 341; DNB29: 236; Hortus 3: 1196 ("Jameson"); IH 2: 311; Jackson p. 375; Kew3: 147; Lasègue p. 327, 472, 505; PR 4391; Urban-Berl. p. 303, 360; Zander ed. 10, p. 675.
- Anderson-Henrey, Trans. Proc. bot. Soc, Edinburgh 12: 19-28. 1876.
- Anon., Bot. Not. 1874: 31; Gard. Ghron. 1872: 1622, 1873: 1151; Bull. Soc. bot. France 20 (bibl.): 103. 1873.
- G. Ch., Flora 56: 446-447. 1873.
- Jameson, W., Journal of voyage from Rio to Peru 1822 (n.v., fide Desmond).
- Milner, J. D., Cat. Portr. Kew 66. 1906.
- Phillips, V. T. and M. E., Guide mss. coll. Acad. Phila. p. 567. 1963.
- Trimen, J. Bot. 11: 318-319. 1873.
- Weberbauer, A., Pflanzenw. peruan. Anden 7. 1911 (Veg. Erde 12).
#### Eponymy
*Jamesonia* W.J. Hooker & Greville (1840); *Jamesoniella* (Spruce) Carrington (1881).
### Publications
##### n.3279. Synopsis plantarum aequatoriensium
**Title**
*Synopsis plantarum aequatoriensium*, exhibens plantas praecipue in regione temperata et frigida crescentes, secundum systematam naturalem descriptas viribus medicatis et usibus oeconomicis plurimarum adjectis... Quito (typis Joannis Pauli Sanz) 1865, 2 vols. Oct. (size).
**Abbreviated title**: *Syn. pl. aequat.*
**Notes**
*1*: 1865 (p. ii: 10 Feb 1865), p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-ii, \[1\]-333.
*2*: 1865, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-324.
*3*: \[1\]-136. Possibly only proofsheets; at US, no other copies known neither to us nor to J. Ewan (in lit.).
*Copies*: MICH, NY, US; IDC 836.
*New edition*: s.d. \[1940\], p. \[1\]-536, (autobiography on P. 5-10). *Copies*: NY, USDA. – "Guillermo Jameson *Synopsis plantarum aequatoriensium*. Publicaciones de la Universidad central. Quito – Ecuador. Imprenta de la Universidad central".