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Lyster Hoxie Dewey (1865- ?) was an American botanist, born at Cambridge, Mich. In 1888 he graduated from Michigan Agricultural College where for the next two years he taught botany. He was an assistant botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1890 to 1902 and thereafter botanist in charge of fibre investigations. In 1911 he was the representative of the United States to the International Fibre Congress at Soerahaia, Java. His publications comprise bulletins of the United States Department of Agriculture on the production of fibre from flax, hemp, sisal, and manila plants, on the classification and origin of the varieties of cotton, and also investigations on grasses and troublesome weeds.
