Legacy
Eleocharis watsonii Bab ('Slender Spike-rush'--now known as Eleocharis uniglumis Schultes) was named after him. However the journal Watsonia, sometimes thought to be named after him takes its name from William Watson.
His manuscripts are housed at the Natural History Museum and also at Kew.
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