New Species of Foamflower

…home using its Latin name, which means “little crown.” Others would call it “foamflower.” It’s easy to recognize and a beautiful plant growing in beautiful places. Perhaps fewer know that…

Velma Dare Matthews

…fungus proved in vain. However, in the summer of 1936 the same fungus was found growing on an insect in the same pool. This time the writer succeeded in growing…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…former students, often into the wee hours. “I may have taught more in my living room than in my classroom,” she said. Many of her students credit her as a…

Augustin Gattinger

…to describe Tennessee coneflower and provided location information for its occurrence.” (2) Plants named in Gattinger’s honor include Aster gattingeri Alexander, Solidago gattingeri Chapm. ex A. Gray, Dormanna gattingeri Kuntze,…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…Ghoda. 1951. Agglutinins for E. coli — in human enteritis — in epinephrine stimulated rabbits. J. Infect. Dis. 89: 35-46. Barksdale, W. L. and Conrad Routh. 1948. Isopora hominis infections…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…investigate UNC’s discriminatory practices in wages, hiring and admission. This investigation resulted in positive changes for female students, faculty and employees. In 1980 she was inducted into the Order of…

Margaret Campbell Campbell

…a particular interest in orchids, as that family accounts for about half of her specimens curated by NCU. How Ms. Campbell became interested in botany is not known, nor is…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…perhaps means breast cancer. She is buried with many family members in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina, and her status as a World War II veteran is noted on…

Frances Katherine Foust Lombard

…(Aphyllophorales, Polyporaceae) associated with brown-rot of Pseudotsuga menziesii residue in western Oregon. Mycologia 75(4): 623-627. Eslyn, Wallace E. and Frances F. Lombard. 1983. Decay in mine timber. Part II: Basidiomycetes…