> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 215](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258693) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/19337-1) LSID 19337-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15122935) QID Q15122935 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Gilkey, Helen Margaret|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Gilkey, Helen Margaret ('Hazel') (1886-1972), American mycologist, botanist and scientific illustrator, born 6 Mar 1886 in Montesano, Washington, moved to Corvallis, Oregon 1903, B.S. 1907 and M.S. 1911 Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State Univ.), Corvallis, Ph.D. 1915 Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley, scientific illustrator Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley 1912-1918, asst. prof. of botany and curator of the herb., Oregon State College, 1918-1927, assoc. prof. 1928-1945, prof. 1945-1951, died 7 Aug 1972 in Corvallis. **Abbreviated name**: *Gilkey* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gilkey*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection OSC|OSC]], duplicates [[Collection BUT|BUT]], [[Collection CUP|CUP]], [[Collection WVA|WVA]]. – Mss. materials in Oregon State Univ. Archives (Helen M. Gilkey papers, 1907-1974) and Yale Univ. Library (Albert \[N.\] and Celia Steward papers). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 10: 1398; APN p. 227; Barnhart 2: 49; BL 1: 209, 297; Bossert p. 144; Ewan Pap. p. 78; Frodin ed. 2: 166; Hawksworth p. 182; Hirsch p. 98; IH 2: 225; Kelly p. 89; Kew 2: 412; Langman p. 315; Lenley p. 180; LS suppl. 9621-9623; NAF ser. 2(1): 32; NW p. 46 (index); Portr. 1: 63 (index), 3: 480; Roon p. 43; TL-2/1: 944. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 472. 1931; Madroño 21: 539. 1972. - Constance, L., 1978. Botany at Berkeley: passim. - Cowan, R., 1973. Taxon 22: 708. - Hasselbring, B., 2003. The Scene (The Univ. Mag. of Willamette Univ.) 20(3): (electronic version). - Lawrence, G.H.M., 1969. Catalogue: A selection of 20th century botanical art & illus.: 48-49. (portr.) - Love, R., 1998. Bull. Native Plant Soc. Oregon 31(2): (electronic version). - Trappe, J.M., 1976. Mycologia 67: 207-213. (portr., frontisp.) #### Outside our period - (1) *Northwestern American plants*... Oregon State Monogr. Stud. Bot. no. 9... 1945. - (2) *Weeds of the Pacific Northwest*... \[Corvallis, Oregon\] (Oregon State College), xxix, 441 p.... 1957; revised by La Rea J. Dennis (1935-x) as *Gilkey's Weeds of the Pacific Northwest*... \[Corvallis, Oregon\] (Oregon State University), 382 p. 1980. - (3) Co-author with Albert Newton Steward (1897-1959) & La Rea J. Dennis (1935-x), *Aquatic plants of the Pacific Northwest*... Oregon State Monogr. Stud. Bot. no.11... 1960. - (4) First author with Patricia L. Packard (1927-x), *Winter twigs*: a wintertime key to deciduous trees and shrubs of northwestern *Oregon* and western *Washington*... Oregon State Monogr. Stud. Bot. no. 12... 1962; rev. ed.,... 2001. *Note*: La Rea J\[ohnston\]. Dennis (1935-x), asst. curator of the herb. at Oregon State Univ., later published as La Rea D\[ennis\]. Johnston. #### Composite works Contributed notes on the plants cited in John Ledyard, *Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage*... Oregon State Monogr. Stud. Bot. no. 3... 1963, edited by James Kenneth Munford (1912-2007). ### Publications ##### n.36.432. revision **Title** A *revision* of the *Tuberales* of *California*... Berkeley... 1916. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 31 Mar 1916 (in journal), t.p. \[discarded in MO & U copy\], p. \[275\]-356, *pl. 26-30 *(uncol. draw.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), FH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY (n.v.), U, US, USDA-Mycol. – Issued as Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6(11): 275-356, *pl. 26-30.* 1916. *Note*: This was derived from her 1915 Ph.D. thesis. *Ref*.: McDougall, W.B., Bot. Centralbl. 132(9): 239. 29 Aug 1916 (noticed). - Krause, K., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 55(Lit.): 9. 1917. - Engler, A., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58(Lit.): 4. 1 Dec 1922 (rev.). ##### n.36.433. most important noxious weeds **Title** The *most important noxious weeds* of *Oregon*... \[Corvallis, Oregon\]... 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1929 (on t.p), p. \[1\]-56. *Copy*: NY. – Issued as Extension Bull., Corvallis, Oregon. ##### n.36.434. spring flora **Title** A *spring flora* of *northwestern Oregon*... \[Corvallis, Oregon\]... 1929. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Feb 1929 ("printed and bound" date on p. \[iii\]), p. \[i\]-xxxii, 1-153. *Copies*: HH, LC (n.v.), MO. *Note*: Revised and enlarged as the following title (nr. 36.435). ##### n.36.435. Handbook **Title** *Handbook* of *northwest flowering plants*... Portland, Oregon (Metropolitan Press) 1936. Oct. (*Handb. northw. fl. pl.*). **Notes** *Co-author*: "Assisted by Garland M. Powell" (fl. 1939-1951), who is credited for Gymnosperms, see IH 2: 706. *Publ*.: 1936 (p. vi signed 9 Jan 1936), p. \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-407, *3 pl*. (uncol. draw.), loose errata sheet. *Copies*: G, HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), NY, USDA. "Second printing" (assisted by Garland M. Powell): 1942 (Introd. p. \[iii\] and Pref. p. vi signed 1 Mar 1942, LC copyright deposit stamp 16 Apr 1942),... Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State College), p. \[i\]-vi, 2 lvs. \[=3 p. uncol. draw.\], \[1\]-413. *Copy*: LC. "Third printing": 1946,... vi, 413 p., *3 pl*. *Copy*: LC (n.v.). "Fourth printing... with minor changes": 1947 (p. vi signed 1 Oct 1947)... vi, 413 p., *3 pl. Copies*: LC (n.v.), NY, USDA (rec'd. 9 Jun 1948). *Ed. 2* (assisted by Garland M. Powell, fl. 1939-1951): 1951 (p. \[vii\] signed 1 Oct 1950),... Portland, Oregon (Binfords & Mort), p. \[i-x\], \[1\]-412. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, USDA (rec'd. 30 Oct 1951). *Ed. 2* \[second printing, rev. in part\]: 1961 (signed 3 Jan 1961), (assisted by Garland M. Powell): 1951,... Portland, Oregon (Binfords & Mort), \[x\], 414 p. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), USDA. *Revised ed*. ("An outgrowth of the earlier *Handbook*...."): Gilkey & La Rea J. Dennis, 1967 (p. \[vii\] signed 12 Oct 1966), *Handbook* of *Northwestern plants*, Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State Univ. Bookstores, Inc.), p. \[i-x\], \[1\]-505. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), MO, US. *Note* (1): The *Handbook* of *northwest flowering plants*... is here retitled, dropping "flowering", to reflect the addition of ferns and fern allies to the text, and changing "northwest" to "northwestern". (2) Other printings of this 1967 ed. exist, all with 505 p., e.g. 1969, *Copy*: MO; 1973, *Copy*: NY; 1975, *Copies*: BM (n.v.), NY. *Another printing*: 1980... \[introd.=6 p. unnumb.\], 507 p. *Copy*: HH. *3rd Rev. ed. & 1st OSU Press ed.* (of *Handbook* of *Northwestern plants*): Jun 2001 (p. 3 signed Mai 2000)... Corvallis, Oregon (Oregon State Univ. Press), p. \[i-v\], 1-494. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY, US. *Ref*.: Schmid, R., Taxon 50(4): 1293-1294. Nov 2001 (rev.) - Schmid, R., BEN \[Botanical Electronic News\] No. 278: (electronic version). 8 Dec 2001 (rev.). - Walker, M.M., Pl. Sci. Bull. 48(2): 69. Summer 2002 (rev.).