Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…one with the surname of “Cave” or “Caves” — but that did not rule out that these hypothetical troglodytes lived in rural Orange County or Durham County. Neither of these…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…a fold of newsprint, with a label tucked in with the plant. There were 35 plants in all; the collection of Carex cristatella, “crested sedge,” had enough material for two…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…Jonathan Peoples in May, 2020, and explain that the Herbarium documents biodiversity around the world, and that our specimens help scientists describe new species and help botanists document the ferns,…

Sandhills Pyxie-Moss Rescue

…bulldozed. Their main target was Sandhills pyxie-moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia), a rare shrub that — in the entire world — grows only in six counties in the Sandhills of…

John Nathaniel Couch

…between the rusts and Septobasidium. University of North Carolina Record 323: 9. A new fungus intermediate between the rusts and Septobasidium. Mycologia 29: 665-673. Notes on the genus Micromyces. Mycologia…

Donald Culross Peattie

…of the natural world around the Grove. Louise and Donald Peattie moved to Santa Barbara, California, and it was there that he wrote A Natural History of Trees of Eastern…

Ivey Foreman Lewis

…Charlottesville, Virginia. Their only daughter was newswoman, feminist, and segregationist Nell (Cornelia) Battle Lewis (1893-1956).1 Ivey Foreman Lewis graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an…