(5 June 1888 – 28 November 1964) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 97 vascular plant specimens, 29 bryophytes, and 2 fungi collected by…
Hugo Leander Blomquist
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Harriet Lathrop Merrow
(September 1858- 21 November 1941) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged one vascular plant specimen and about thirty micro-fungi specimens collected by Ms. Merrow…
Edwin Lynn Bridges
( b. 18 April 1957 ) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates at least 443 vascular plant specimens collected by Edwin L. Bridges. Without doubt…
Edwin Huey Bullington
…Arkansas. M.S. thesis, University of Arkansas. SOURCES: Edwin Huey Bullington, obituary. 2018. Dignity Memorial https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/pompano-beach-fl/edwin-bullington-7990156 accessed on 12 October 2023. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on 12 October….
William C. Brumbach
(28 August 1905 – 25 November 1982)1,7 William Clifford Brumbach was an all-around naturalist whose interests focused on mollusks and vascular plants. He also documented algae, fungi and lichens. The…
Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.
(15 October 1905 – 2 April 1970)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates a single vascular specimen collected by Robert R. Brinker, a specimen of…
Herbarium Identifies Ten New Species in July
Hidden amid similar specimens, differing only in its “weirdness,” a new plant discovered by herbarium associate Kevan Schoonover McClelland was finally given a name after lengthy efforts to identify it.
The Herbarium’s First Cataloged Lichen Gets Identified by DNA Analysis
By Gary Perlmutter, Herbarium Associate & Carol Ann McCormick, Herbarium Curatrix Identifying lichens can be a painstaking and difficult practice and often employs several different techniques. First is morphological examination,…
Albion Reed Hodgdon
(1909 – 1976)2 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hebarium (NCU) has cataloged about 50 specimens collected throughout eastern North America by Albion Reed Hodgdon, who usually signed…
Leva Belle Walker
…accessed on 20 January 2014. 2. MyCoPortal . 2023. http://www.mycoportal.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on July 19. 3. Cache from 20 December 2013 16:53:51 GMT of http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XaRIyd0xJJMJ:griffin.wsu.edu/masc/walkerlibrarydescription.html+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us 4. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/who1940/co/Lancaster/lancstrq.htm accessed on 20 January…