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BOTANY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS/INTRODUCTION 245
Eula Whitehouse (1892–1974) (Fig. 148) is best
known for her Texas Flowers in Natural Colors (1936),
the first color-illustrated guide to Texas wildflowers
(Flook 1974). She worked at the Houston Municipal
Hospital, the Texas Memorial Museum in Austin,
the University of Texas College of Mines, and Southern
Methodist University. She worked on various
plant groups (e.g., Phlox for her Ph.D. dissertation)
and while at SMU studied bryophytes (Whitehouse
& McAllister 1954), published taxonomic revisions
(e.g., Whitehouse 1945, 1949), and did extensive art
work. Some of her illustrations were used in Shinners’
Spring Flora and are reproduced in this volume.
Another important North Central Texas botanist
was Cyrus Longworth Lundell (1907–1994) (Fig.
149). While he formally organized the SMU herbarium
in 1944, Lundell is best known as founder of the Texas
Research Foundation (Renner), author (with collaborators)
of the Flora of Texas, and a specialist on the
FIG. 148/ EULA WHITEHOUSE (1892–1974). FROM
Myrsinaceae. His institute was instrumental in establish-
THE COLLECTION OF THE BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ing Texas as an important center of taxonomic botany.
OF TEXAS.
Lundell’s herbarium (official abbreviation: LL) is
now part of the collection at the University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, Amelia, are
also honored by the name of the journal, Lundellia, published by the Plant Resources Center
at that institution.
FIG. 149/CYRUS LONGWORTH LUNDELL (1907–1994).WORKING IN FRONT OF HIS THATCHED HUT HEADQUARTERS AT TIKAL,GUATEMALA.
FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS.