> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 979](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190450) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8725-1) LSID 8725-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607532) QID Q21607532 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Rugel, Ferdinand (Ignatius Xavier) (1806-1878), German (Württemberg, Oberschwaben) born American botanical explorer, pharmacist and surgeon; practicing in Bern as pharmacist 1827-1840 and collecting in Switzerland, France, Spain and Sicily; to the United States, 1840, for R.J. Shuttleworth, collecting widely in S.W. states 1840-1848 and Cuba 1849; severing his ties with Shuttleworth 1849, after 1850 collecting occasionally in Tennessee and Texas; settled in Knoxville, Tennessee 1849, working for a wholesale drug firm; after the Civil War living in Jefferson County, Tennessee. **Abbreviated name**: *Rugel* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rugel*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NA|NA]] (via J.C. Martindale and [[Collection PHIL|PHIL]]); [[Collection BM|BM]] (first set of 1840-1849 American plants via Shuttleworth); further material in [[Collection B|B]] (extant), [[Collection BAS|BAS]], [[Collection BERN|BERN]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KIEL|KIEL]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection LIVU|LIVU]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection LZ|LZ]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PH|PH]] (major set), [[Collection US|US]] (1100), [[Collection W|W]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 4: 454; Barnhart 3: 190 (b. 24 Dec 1806; d. 31 Dec 1878); Bossert p. 235; IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, 2: (files); Lenley p. 468; Urban-Berl. p. 390. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 3: 218-224. 1845 (list coll. Florida, Alabama deposited with R.J. Shuttleworth); Bull. Torrey bot. Club 6: 311-312; 1879 (brief obit., "left a large collection of both shells and plants" which is for sale); Flora 21(1) Intell.-Bl. 29-30. 1838, 23(2) Intell.-bl. 1-2. 1840, 27: 175. 1844 (visited Flora), 57: 463-464, 496, 527. 1874 (sale herb.). - Corgan, J.X., J. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 53(1): 5-7. 1978 (brief sketch). - Cullen, J., Taxon 21: 730. 1972 (pl. LIVU). - Ewan, J., *in* R.W. Long & O. Lakela, Fl. trop. Florida 4, 5. 1971. - Geiser, S.W., Field and Laboratory 16: 113-119. 1948 (portr.), 18: 112. 1950 (b. 17 Dec 1806, Wolfegg, Württemberg), 27: 190. 1959 (coll. Texas 1878); see also Pharmaz. Zeit. 85: 346-347. 1949. - Hollick, A., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 6: 311. 1879 (d.; herbarium to be sold). - Lehmann, E., Schwäbische Apotheker 113-115, 205. 1951 (b. Altorf (= Weingarten), Oberschwaben 17 Dec 1806, sic date from Weingärtner Bürgerbuch, biogr. sketch; d. 31 Jan 1879). - Lindsley, P., *in* L.B. Hill, ed., A history of Greater Dallas and vicinity 2: 184-185. 1909 (brief biogr. note of F. Rugel and his son Joseph). - M., Bot. Zeit. 2: 110-111. 1844 (Tennessee plants rd. by Shuttleworth). - Mears, J.A., Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 133: 161. 1981. - Meyer, F.G. & S. Elsasser, Taxon 22: 383-385, 391. 1973 (herb. NA; d. 1879). - Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 178. 1904 (coll. via Shuttleworth). - Sargent, C.S., Silva 9: no. 1896. - Shuttleworth, R.J., Bot. Zeit. 3: 218-224. 1845 (list of plants coll. 1843 in Florida and Alabama, distr. by R.J. Shuttleworth). - Stearn, W.T., J. Arnold Arb. 46: 270. 1965. - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3(1): 115-116. 1902. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gött. 139. 1982. #### Handwriting Taxon 22: 385, 391. 1973. #### Eponymy *Rugelia* Shuttleworth ex Chapman (1860).