Elsie May Zeile

Elsie May Zeile (1885–1988) was an American botanist who studied Spermatophytes.[1][2][3] She studied botany at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with honors in May 1922.[4] As a research assistant, she made contributions to the book A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California, by Professor Willis Jepson.[5] She is credited with discovering and classifying the Tiburon Paintbrush, named Castilleja neglects Zeile. After she concluded her studies, she frequently gave lectures on botany and wild flowers to social organizations in San Francisco.[6][7][8] An active member of the Sierra Club, she wrote an article for the Sierra Club Bulletin on the wildflowers of Yellowstone National Park.[9] She also was a member of the California Botanical Society and served for a time as the organization's treasurer. In December 1930, at the age of 45, she married the widower Dr. Walter R. Lovegrove, a San Francisco dentist and champion chess player.[10]

The standard author abbreviation Zeile is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[11]

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References

  1. ^ Howell, John Thomas (September 1964). "Serendipity a la Botaniue". Leaflets of Western Botany. 10 (7): 111–117. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Munz, Philip Alexander; Keck, David D. (1973). A California Flora, Volumes 1-2. University of California Press. p. 669, 671, 1576. ISBN 9780520024052. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  3. ^ Howell, John Thomas (1970). Marin Flora: Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Marin County, California. University of California Press. p. vii. ISBN 9780520005785.
  4. ^ University of California, Fifty-ninth Commencement, May, 1922, p. 74.
  5. ^ Jepson, Willis Linn (1925). A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California (4th ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press (published 1960). p. 20.
  6. ^ "Botany Talk". San Francisco Chronicle. March 17, 1924. p. 9.
  7. ^ "Lecture Planned". San Francisco Chronicle. May 5, 1924. p. 8.
  8. ^ "Calendar". San Francisco Chronicle. May 9, 1938. p. 14.
  9. ^ Zeile, Elsie M. (1927). "Wild Flowers on the Yellowstone Outing". Sierra Club Bulletin. 12 (4): 346–348.
  10. ^ "Miss Zeile Weds". San Francisco Chronicle. December 27, 1930.
  11. ^ International Plant Names Index. Zeile.


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