(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…
Harriet Lathrop Merrow
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(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…
( 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…
(27 July 1937 – 13 September 2018)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about a dozen specimens collected by Edwin Huey Bullington. He usually signed…
(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…
(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…
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.
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,…
(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…
(2 December 1878 – 29 July 1970)1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has catalogued to date 15 fungal specimens collected by Leva B. Walker. Most…
(1915-1952) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 140 vascular plant specimens collected by William Basil Fox, who usually signed his labels “W. B….