Species Dicksonia antartica

For James Dickson (1738–1822), British botanist, mycologist and nurseryman. He came from a family of nurserymen and in 1772 set up a business as a nurseryman and seedsman in Covent Garden. By 1781 he became interested in cryptogams. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae, a four-volume work in which he published over 400 species of algae and fungi that occur in the British Isles. He is also the author of Collection of Dried Plants, Named on the Authority of the Linnaean Herbarium and Other Original Collections. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a founding member of the Linnaean Society, and a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society.