> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 165](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259669) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12498-1) LSID 12498-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7372334) QID Q7372334 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ferris, Roxana ('Roxy') Judkins (née Stinchfield) (1895-1978), American botanist, born 13 Apr 1895 in Sycamore, Calif., B.A. 1915 and M.A. 1916 Stanford Univ., Stanford, Calif., student asst. 1913-1916, asst. 1916-1929, asst. curator 1929-1962 and curator 1962-1963, all Dudley Herb., Stanford Univ., married 20 Aug 1916 Gordon Floyd Ferris, an entomologist, collected widely in the w. U.S.A. and Mexico, died 30 Jun 1978 in Palo Alto, Calif. **Abbreviated name**: *Ferris* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ferris*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection DS|DS]] (orig.), duplicates [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection BH|BH]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection ILL|ILL]], [[Collection LC|LC]], [[Collection MEXU|MEXU]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection POM|POM]], [[Collection RSA|RSA]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]] (often combined with other collectors). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 11: 1521. 1965; APN p. 199; Barnhart 1: 537; BFM p. 283 (index); BL 1: 151, 295; Bossert p. 125; Ewan ed. 1: 208, ed. 2: 74; Ewan Pap. p. 68; FNA ser. 2(10): 209; Frodin ed. 2: 241; Hirsch p. 83; Hortus 3: 1192; IH 2: 195; Langman p. 281; NW p. 45 (index); Portr. 1: 61 (index), 3: 427; TL-1: 1; Tucker 3: 106. #### Biofile - Anon., Madroño 14(1): frontisp., incl. dedication of vol. (portr.). 1957; Pl. Sci. Bull. 24(3): 31. 1978; Taxon 27: 492. 1978\[i.e. 1979\]. - Ewan, J. (ed.), 1969. Short hist. bot. U.S.: 24. - Heckard, L.R., 1982. Fremontia 9(4): 20. - Jones, G.N., 1966. An annotated bibl. Mexican ferns: 69. - Knobloch, I., 1979. Michigan State Univ. Latin Amer. Stud. Center Monogr. 17: 16. - Lindsay, G.E., \[1961\]. Notes concerning bot. explor. of Lower Calif., Mexico: 52. (portr., following p. 52) - McVaugh, R., 1972. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 9(3): 235. - Thomas, J.H., 1961. Contr. Dudley Herb. 5(6): 154. - Thomas, J.H., 1969. Huntia 3: 35. - Thomas, J.H., 1975. Fremontia 2(4): 21-22. (portr.) - Thomas, J.H., 1979. Fremontia 7(1): 23-24. (portr.) - Timby, S., 1998. Sandstone & Tile (Stanford Hist. Soc.) 22(4): 3-15. (portrs.) #### Composite works Ferris completed for publication the M.A. thesis by Gilbert Thereon Benson (1896-1928), which had been submitted in 1925 to Stanford Univ., viz. *The trees* and *shrubs* of *western Oregon*, Contr. Dudley Herb. 2: \[1\]-170, map. 1930. #### Outside our period - (1) Ferris provided substantial technical support, which included contributing several family treatments, to LeRoy Abrams in the course of the publication of his *Ill. fl. Pacific States*... 1923-1960, 4 vols. (see TL-2/1, nr. 6). The last vol., however, was solely her work, viz.... Vol. 4. Bignoniaceae to Compositae... 1960. - (2) Author of several semi-popular Calif. floras, incl.: (a) *Death Valley wildflowers*, Death Valley, Calif. (Death Valley Natural History Assoc.)... \[1962\]; Id.,... 1974; and 2nd revised ed., with Wesley E. Niles,... 1981; (b) *Native shrubs of San Francisco Bay Region*, Berkeley (Univ. Calif. Press)... 1968; and (c) *Flowers of the Point Reyes National Seashore*, Berkeley (Univ. Calif. Press)... 1970. ### Publications ##### n.34.405. Taxonomy **Title** *Taxonomy* and distribution of *Adenostegia*... Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club ... 1918. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 19 Oct 1918 (in journal but "11 O 1918" on reprint!), p. \[399\]-423, *pl. 10* (uncol. draw.), *11-12* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: HH (n.v.), NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 45(10): 399-423, *pl*. *10-12*. 1918. *Note*: Based on her Master's thesis submitted to Stanford Univ. 1916. ##### n.34.406. Preliminary report **Title** *Preliminary report* on the *flora* of the *Tres Marías Islands*... Contributions from the Dudley Herbarium... 1927. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Prel. rep. fl. Tres Marías Isl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 21 Mai 1927 (date on p. \[58\]), cover-t.p., p. \[57\]-81, \[i\], *pl. 1-3* (uncol. lith.), *4* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: B, BR, HH, NY(2), U, US, USDA. – Issued as Contr. Dudley Herb. 1(2): 63-81, *pl. 1-4.* 1927.