…gold rush of 1849. By the 1830s, gold Hairy rubber cup fungi (Galiella rufa) on Uwharrie Trail near Little Long Mountain, Uwharrie National Forest prospectors and miners had moved into…
…“the new lobelia is close to L. glandulosa which is distinctly hirsute [hairy] in the throat of the corolla…the new species completely lacks hairs inside the flower.” When the news…
…determine. Eventually I came across my Rosetta Stone: a newspaper article from 1930 titled “Priest Botanist Protects Florida from Fruit Fly.”5 Everything finally fell into place! Between the article and…
…7 fungal specimens), University of Arizona (ARIZ; 154), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO; 88 bryophytes), New York Botanical Garden (NY; 49 bryophytes) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (WIS; 118). Like…
…project, the Macrofungal Collection Consortium. Other herbaria curating Dr. Walker’s fungal specimens include Cornell University (CUP), Harvard Herbaria (FH), Iowa State University (ISC), New York Botanical Garden (NY), University of…
…usually signed his labels as “C. O. Houghton”. They were collected between 1913 and 1930 from Maryland, Delaware, and New York. As our collections continue to be cataloged it is…
…on a farm in southern New York. From New York he went to St. Louis, where he remained for a number of years and then removed across the [Mississippi] river…
…County, New York in 1871. After receiving his primary education in the public schools of Jericho, he attended the Bridgehampton Literary & Commercial Institute of Suffolk County, New York.3 He…
…easy to see. If there’s a lot of leaf litter, sometimes it might be necessary to push aside some of it to find where the runner(s) originate from the plant…
…University (MU), Mississippi Museum of Natural Sciences (MMNS), Mississippi State University (MISSA), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), New York Botanical Garden (NY; major repository), Pennsylvania State University (PAC), Rutgers University (CHRB),…