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{{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Delzie Demaree | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Delzie Demaree Portrait.tif | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Portrait of Delzie Demaree in 1920. | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = {{birth date |1889|09|15}} | birth_place = Benham, Indiana, United States | death_date = {{death date and age |1987|07|02 |1889|09|15}} | death_place = United States | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Botany. | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }}
thumb|Herbarium specimen of Passiflora lutea, collected by Delzie Demaree in Arkansas, 1961.
'''Delzie Demaree''' (15 September 1889 – 2 July 1987) was an American botanist, and plant collector.<ref name=Taxon>{{cite journal |last=Anonymous |title=Deaths. |journal=Taxon |date=1987 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=802 |jstor=1221155 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1221155}}</ref> His place of death is reported as Bonham, Arkansas <ref name=Taxon /> or Texas.<ref name= ArkansasAS>{{cite journal |last=Tucker |first=Gary E. |title=In Memoriam: Delzie Demaree, 1889-1987 |journal=Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science |date=1988 |volume=42 |pages=16–17 |s2cid=184873268 |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/331c/a150bd7867a31713dfbb082f20e908ca99f8.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210083741/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/331c/a150bd7867a31713dfbb082f20e908ca99f8.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-02-10 }}</ref>
==Life== Demaree was born in Benham, in south-eastern Indiana. He attended the Central Normal College in Danville before serving as a member of the United States Marine Corps between 1917 and 1919.<ref name=Sida /><ref name = unc /> Demaree completed a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in botany in 1920.<ref name = unc /> He started to concentrate on collecting botanical specimens in 1922, while teaching at Hendrix College Arkansas.<ref name=Sida>{{cite journal |last=Anonymous |title=Biographical Sketch. |journal=SIDA, Contributions to Botany |date=1982 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=269 |jstor=23909796 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/23909796}}</ref> Delzie completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1932 and continued to teach at various institutions, including Arkansas Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and Tulane University.<ref name=Sida />
==Published major works== * Demaree, D. 1932. Plant responses to sawdust. ''Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci.'' 51:125-6. * Demaree, D. 1932. Submerging experiments with ''Taxodium''. ''Ecology.'' 12:258-262. * Demaree, D. 1941. Noteworthy Arkansas plants. I. ''Proc. Ark. Acad.'' 1: 17–19. * Demaree, D. 1943. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Arkansas. ''Taxodium'' 1(1):1-88. * W. Carl Taylor and D. Demaree. 1979. Annotated list of the ferns and fern allies of Arkansas. ''Rhodora'' 81 (828) : 503–548.
==Legacy== The following plants, have been named in his honour:
===Vascular plants=== * ''Carya'' × ''demareei'' E.J.Palmer <ref name=Palmer>{{cite journal |last=Palmer |first= Ernest J |title=Notes on North American Trees and Shrubs |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |date=1937 |volume=18 |pages=135 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8369322#page/245/mode/1up}}</ref> * ''Coreopsis grandiflora f. demareei'' Sherff * ''Draba corrugata var. demareei'' (Wiggins) C.L.Hitchc., and synonym ''Draba demareei'' Wiggins. * ''Gaura demareei'' P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.<ref name=Raven>{{cite journal |last1=Raven |first= Peter H. | last2=Gregory | first2=David P | title=A revision of the genus ''Gaura'' (Onagraceae). |journal=Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club |date=1972 |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=54 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/243631#page/82/mode/1up}}</ref> * ''Oenothera demareei'' (P.H.Raven & D.P.Greg.) W.L.Wagner & Hoch * ''Rosa demareei'' E.J.Palmer,<ref name=Rehder>{{cite journal |last=Rehder |first= Alfred |title=New species, varieties and combinations from the herbarium and the collections of the Arnold Arboretum |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |date=1929 |volume=10 |pages=36 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8369322#page/245/mode/1up}}</ref> a synonym of Rosa woodsii Lindl. * ''Verbena demareei'' Moldenke,<ref name=Moldenke>{{cite journal |last=Moldenke |first= Harold N. |title=Verbenaceous Novelties. |journal=The American Midland Naturalist |date=1940 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=752 |doi= 10.2307/2420871 |jstor= 2420871 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2420871|url-access=subscription }}</ref> a synonym of Verbena bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida.
==Botanical collections== The bulk of Demaree's plant collections (approximately 50,000 specimens) were held by the Southern Methodist University herbarium, out of the over 75,000 collection numbers that he recorded.<ref name=Sida /><ref name=ArkansasAS /> Smaller collections are held in the United States including the University of Arkansas and University of North Carolina herbaria, and overseas including at the National Herbarium of Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and the Australian National Herbarium.<ref name = unc>{{cite web |url=http://herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Demaree.htm |title=Collectors of the UNC Herbarium |author=Carol Ann McCormick |date=2007 |website=The University of North Carolina Herbarium |publisher=The University of North Carolina |access-date=12 February 2021 |archive-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520050649/http://herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Demaree.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name = ua>{{cite web |url=https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/biology/herbarium/index.php |title=Welcome to the University of Arkansas Herbarium |website=Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences |publisher=University of Arkansas |access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref><ref name= avh>{{cite web |url=http://avh.chah.org.au|title=The Australasian Virtual Herbarium|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2020 |website=The Australasian Virtual Herbarium|publisher=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) |access-date=11 February 2021}}</ref>
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