Frank Ellis Boynton (July 10, 1859 – December 10, 1942) was a self-taught American

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

active in the

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. He worked at

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with his brother, Charles Lawrence Boynton, and

Chauncey Beadle Chauncey Delos Beadle (August5, 18661950) was a Canadian-born botanist and horticulturist active in the southern United States. He was educated in horticulture at Ontario Agricultural College (1884) and Cornell University (1889). In 1890 the la ...

. Boynton's dewberry, '' Rubus boyntonii'' was named in honor of Frank Ellis Boynton.W. W. Ashe in Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 19:9. 1903

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* * 1859 births 1942 deaths American botanists People from Hyde Park, Vermont {{US-botanist-stub