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References
- ↑ "Morrison, William - biography". Collectors & Illustrators. Australian National Herbarium . Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- ↑ Records of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew), by John Smith, 1880, p. 10.
- ↑ Erickson, Rica (1969). The Drummonds of Hawthornden. Osborne Park: Lamb Paterson. p. 43.
William Morrison made little mark in the colony except that his name survives in the beautiful Verticordia nitens, popularly called 'Morrison flower'. There is a story that Captain Meares could not remember its botanical name and as he depended on Morrison to locate it for him, it thus received this title.
- ↑ George, Elizabeth; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia: The Turner of Hearts. Perth: University of Western Australia. p. 8. ISBN 1-876268-46-8.