Willard Webster Eggleston

Willard Webster Eggleston (March 28, 1863 in Pittsfield, Vermont - November 25, 1935 in Washington, D.C.) was an American botanist, employed by the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1891 with a Bachelor of Science degree.[1] In his work on the taxonomy of Crataegus, now known to be complicated by apomixis, polyploidy, and hybridization,[2][3] he aimed to simplify, counteracting the proliferation of species names that other botanists had produced.[4]

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  1. Stafleu, F.A.; Cowan, R.S. (1976–1988), "Eggleston, Willard Webster (1863–1935)", Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition, Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  2. Rickett, H.W. (1936), "Forms of Crataegus pruinosa", Botanical Gazette 97 (4): 780–793, JSTOR 2471527
  3. Dickinson, T.A.; Campbell, C.S. (1991), "Population structure and reproductive ecology in the Maloideae (Rosaceae)", Systematic Botany 16 (2): 350–362
  4. Brown, H.B. (1910), "The genus Crataegus, with some theories concerning the origin of its species", Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 37 (5): 251–260
  5. "Author Query for 'Eggl.'". International Plant Names Index.

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