by Van Cotter, Herbarium Research Associate, UNC at CH Herbarium (NCU) and John S. Gibbs, Willow Spring, North Carolina Thanks to the dedicated mycological exploration by the junior author, who is 13 years old and has an avid interest in mycology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) now has the first…
(b. 1943) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates more than 1,700 vascular plant specimens and about 90 bryophyte specimens collected by Steven Worth Leonard. As we continue to catalog our collections we will find more specimens collected by him. Most specimens were collected in the United States, particularly in the…
(21 June 1884 – 11 November 1973) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 100 vascular plant specimens collected by Francis J. LeClair. Without doubt more will be found as cataloging of collections continues. LeClair collected specimens throughout the southeastern United States, especially in Bay Minette (Baldwin County, Alabama),…
22 March, 1872 — 22 July 1927 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about one hundred vascular plant specimens collected by Charles Fuller Baker — about a dozen collected solely by him in 1898, and another eighty or so collected with Franklin Sumner Earle in 1896-1899. Most were collected in…
(3 August 1882 – 16 March 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged less than a dozen botanical specimens collected by Ivey Foreman Lewis. Most specimens were collected ca. 1901 near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus while he was an undergraduate. A few were collected…
(1912-2015) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 150 vascular plant specimens collected by Batson, who usually signed his herbarium labels “W. T. Batson”. Without doubt more specimens will be found as we continue to catalog our collections. Most of Batson’s specimens at NCU were collected in South Carolina;…
(4 June 1891 – March 1977) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged approximately 50 vascular plant specimens collected by Goodwin LeBaron Foster, who signed his specimens and scientific papers “G.L. Foster.” Foster was clearly keen on collecting and keen on his status as an alumnus of Dartmouth College, as…
b. 1944 Bruce Sorrie with Taxodium ascendens in Moore County, North Carolina in 22 November, 2011. Photo by Kathy Ann Walsh. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) is Bruce Sorrie’s primary repository for specimens collected for the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program and for other botanical projects throughout the southeastern United…
(4 August 1921 – 23 November 1990 ) Helen Shedd Sherwin was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Edith Sherwin nee Dodson and Melvin Ernest Sherwin. Her father was a professor of agriculture at North Carolina State College in that city. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (which later became…
(4 December 1894 – 19 December 1988) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has found a single vascular plant specimen collected by Effie Boon. As she collected primarily in her home state of Texas which is outside our current cataloging focus, it is possible that more specimens collected by her will…