Frank Ellis Boynton (July 10, 1859 – December 10, 1942) was a self-taught American botanist active in the Southeastern United States. He worked at Biltmore Estate with his brother, Charles Lawrence Boynton, and Chauncey Beadle. Boynton's dewberry, Rubus boyntonii was named in honor of Frank Ellis Boynton.
The standard author abbreviation F.E.Boynton is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.Famous quotes containing the words frank and/or ellis:
“The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
—French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)