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Triticum richardsonii Schrader [=Elymus
trachycaulus (Link) Shinners subsp.
subsecundus (Link) A.& D. Löve
Bromus richardsonii Link [=Bromus ciliatus L.]
Vilfa richardsonis Trinius [=Muhlenbergia
richardsonis (Trin.) Rydb.]
Roemer, Karl Ferdinand (von) (1818-1891).
German botanist, geologist, and explorer who visited Texas
in 1845-1847, collecting plants with F.J. Lindheimer;
authored an account of his travels entitled Texas; mit
besonderer Rücksicht... [Texas, with particular reference to
German immigration and the physical appearance of the
country described through personal observation by Dr.
Ferdinand Roemer] (1845); most of his plants were
described by G. H. Adolph Scheele, a German clergyman-
botanist to whom Roemer had given the collections.
Aristida roemeriana Scheele
Rothrock, Joseph Trimble (1839-1922).
Botanist, physician, forester, and early student of Asa
Gray’s; sugeon-botanist assigned to G.M. Wheeler’s 1873-
1875 survey west of the 100th meridian, which passed
through New Mexico and the surrounding states; his
botanical results of the survey published (1878) in Reports
upon the botanical collections made in portions of Nevada,
Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona,
during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875, which
constituted volume six of Wheeler’s overall report of the
exploration; subsequently professor of botany and forestry
at University of Pennsylvania.
Bouteloua rothrockii Vasey [=Bouteloua barbata
Lag. var. rothrockii (Vasey) Gould]
Saint-Hilaire, Auguste Francois César Prouvançal de
(1779-1853).
Self-taught French botanist-entomologist who explored
Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay in 1816-1822; associate of
A.L. de Jussieu.
Hilaria
Sandberg, John Herman (1848-1917).
Swedish-born agronomist and forester; field agent for U.S.
Department of Agriculture who collected plants in
Minnesota, Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin, Montana,
and Idaho.
Poa sandbergii Vasey
Saunders, William (1822-1900).
Scotch-born horticulturalist and gardener at Kew Gardens
in England; first Superintendent of Horticulture, U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Elymus saundersii Vasey
Schaffner, Wilhelm [later J. Guillermo Schaffner] (?-
1882).
German botanical collector and pharmacist who settled in
Mexico in 1856; collected extensively around Mexico,
Orizaba, and San Luis Potosí.
Muhlenbergia schaffneri Fourn. [=Muhlenbergia
depauperata Scribn.]
Schiede, Christian Julius Wilhelm (1798-1836).
German physician-botanist who collected plants in Mexico,
residing in that country from 1828 until his death in 1836.
Aristida schiedeana Trinius & Ruprecht
Scribner, Frank Lamson- (1851-1938).
Chief of the Division of Agrostology, U.S. Department of
Agriculture; accompanied W.M. Canby on Villard’s 1883
Northern Transcontinental Survey, collecting grasses in
Montana. [In his publications, Scribner hyphenated his
name on the title pages (“Lamson-Scribner”), but used just
“Scribner” as author in his descriptions of new species.
Agropyron scribneri Vasey [=Elymus scribneri
(Vasey) M.E. Jones]
Calamagrostis scribneri Beal
Panicum scribnerianum Nash [=Dichanthelium
oligosanthes (Schult.) Gould var.
scribnerianum (Nash) Gould]
Stipa scribneri Vasey [=Achnatherum scribneri]
Smith, Jared Gage (1866-1925).
American agriculturalist and collector-botanist for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture; botanized in Nebraska and
Hawaii, as well as Europe, Australia, and Mexico; one-time
botanist at Missouri Botanical Garden; later took up
tobacco farming; well-known for his A synopsis of the
genus Sitanion (1899).
Agropyron smithii Rydb. [=Elymus smithii
(Rydb.) Gould]
Springfield, H. Wayne (1920-x).
Range scientist and ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service
1947-1977, much of his work being done on Glorieta Mesa
in New Mexico; studied mine reclamation and restoration
ecology of winterfat, fourwing saltbush, and crested
wheatgrass.
Andropogon springfieldii Gould [=Bothriochloa
springfieldii (Gould) Parodi]
Stebbins, George Ledyard (1906-x).
Distinguished American plant geneticist, evolutionist, and
student of plant speciation, with a particular interest in
grasses and polyploidy; associated with the universities at
Berkeley and Davis, California for many years; author of
Variation and Evolution in Plants (1950) and Flowering
Plants: Evolution Above the Species Level (1974).
Hordeum stebbinsii Covas [=Hordeum murinum
L. subsp. glaucum (Steud.) Tsvelev]
Swallen, Jason Richard (1903-1991).
Agrostologist and head curator, U.S. National Herbarium
(Smithsonian Institution); early training under tutelage of
A.S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase; significant collections
throughout North America, but especially from California,
southwest U.S., Mexico, Honduras, and Brazil, from which
he described more than 500 new species of grasses;
authored Grasses of Panama (1943) and Grasses of
Guatemala (1955), among numerous other works.
Hilaria swallenii Cory
Thurber, George (1821-1890).
New York botanist and journalist; Botanist, Quartermaster,
and Commissary with the U.S.-Mexican Boundary Survey
(1850-53), during which he made important collections
from near Mimbres and Silver City; editor of American
Agriculturalist; in later life devoted to the unmasking of
business fraud, for which he was touted by Rusby as “a
terror to quacks, charlatans, and swindlers of every
description;” commemorated in Asa Gray’s Plantae Novae
Thurberianae.
Festuca thurberi Vasey
Muhlenbergia thurberi Rydb.
Torrey, John (1796-1873).