Career
He published several works with William Chambers Coker, and did a lot of work in Florida with Gertrude Simmons Burlingham after they both retired there. Beardslee graduated from Painesville High School, in Painesville, Ohio in 1883. He graduated from Western Reserve University in 1889.
He was an instructor at Asheville School for boys.
Beardslee"s father, also named Henry Curtis Beardslee (1807–1884), was also a botanist. This is an incomplete list of species in which Beardslee was the author, or co-author with Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (Burl).
The year of description and publication may follow an entry:.