John Scott

Scottish botanist and gardener (1836-1880).

John Scott FLS (5 April 1836–11 June 1880) was a Scottish botanist and gardener. Born at Denholm, he was the gardener at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, before becoming foreman of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1859. He emigrated to India in 1864, with the patronage of Charles Darwin, becoming curator of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1865. While in India he carried out numerous botanical experiments and observations on behalf of Darwin. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1873 and died at Garvald, East Lothian.

Abbreviations: J.Scott
Occupations: botanist
Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dates: 1836-04-05T00:00:00Z – 1880-06-11T00:00:00Z
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 1 plant contributed to2 plants:

Dixoniellaceae Yokoyama, J. Scott, G. Zuccarello, M. Kajikawa, Y. Hara & J. West, 2009 2009
plant family in the order dixoniellales
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Gymnosphaera andersonii (J.Scott ex Bedd.) Ching & S.K.Wu 1983
plant species in the cyatheaceae family
Gymnosphaera andersonii, synonyms Alsophila andersonii and Cyathea andersonii, is a species of tree fern native to the eastern Himalayas of India, Bhutan, and Tibet, Myanmar, and south-central China, where it grows in moist valleys and montane forest at an elevation of 300–1200 m. The trunk is erect and 6–10 m tall. Fronds are bi- or tripinnate and 2–3 m long. The entire plant is relatively dark in appearance; the rachis is flushed with dark purple and the stipe is dark, almost to the point of being black. Dark, lanceolate scales with pale fringes are sparsely scattered along the length of
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