A Toast to Polk County, Galax, and Bigleaf Scurfpea

…with the University of Washington Herbarium (WTU) collection and other Pacific Northwest collections) on the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria website ( https://www.pnwherbaria.org/data/search.php ). Doing a quick search, there are…

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

(7 November 1876 – ca. 24 August 1956) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged 25 specimens collected by Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler, who went…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, Lighthipe continued his botanical work. One of his favorite places to botanize was “St. Nicholas” in Duval County. Fort San Nicholas (30.306467 latitude, -81.639050 longitude)…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…Miriam K. 1968. The effect of colchicine on Olpidiopsis incrassata and its host, Saprolegnia delica. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 84(1): 184-186. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24334761 Slifkin, Miriam K. and Judson…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…State Garden Clubs honored her for 25 years of work on behalf of the Marshall Forest. Dr. Lipps’ ecological interests are also reflected in her geological work at Ladd’s Quarry…

Following in Botanical Footsteps at Rocky Face Mountain

…<https://www.co.iredell.nc.us/629/Statesville> [accessed on 25 July 2020] Wikipedia contributors, ‘Western North Carolina Railroad’, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 3 March 2019, 19:44 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_North_Carolina_Railroad&oldid=886013521> [accessed 25 July 2020] ‘Statesville, North Carolina’ Encyclopedia…

New Species of Foamflower

…nautila, Union Co., Georgia. Photo by Kip Pelen, 25 April 2021, iNaturalist. Lots of folks in the eastern United States know Tiarella when they see it and even feel at…

Josiah Hale

…http://www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20History.htm http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/RIDDELL.html Torrey and Gray (1842) A Flora of North America 2: 304. Small (1898) Studies in the botany of the southeastern United States XV. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25(12):…

Velma Dare Matthews

…Grave Memorial #98433321. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98433321 accessed on 5 February 2015. 2. One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Annual Commencement, Tuesday, June 10, 1930. University of North Carolina. https://archive.org/stream/commencement19301930univ/commencement19301930univ_djvu.txt 3. University of North Carolina…

Augustin Gattinger

…burned to the ground and all 50,000 specimens – including Gattinger’s – were destroyed.] REFERENCES: 1. http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/gattingera.shtml accessed on 17 June 2011. 2. https://www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/na-natural-areas/natural-areas-middle-region/middle-region/gattinger-s-cedar-glade-and-barrens.html accessed on 22 October 2019 3….