New Lichens in The Old North State

…repository commonly called Lichen Portal. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with about 170 other herbaria world-wide, catalog lichen specimens to this Consortium. By having specimens cataloged…

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…at the End of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. I cannot actually recommend this book — I find myself skimming paragraphs just to get on with it — but I’ll…

Elbert Thomas Bartholomew

…by his colleagues, lunched daily in the open sunlit patio of the “Main Building” where there was animated conversation, among fellow scientists and visitors alike, concerning plant and world problems….

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…he long resided, familiar to botanists almost throughout the world. Western Missouri was a frontier country at the close of the Civil War, and nowhere had gorilla [sic; guerilla] warfare…

Carnivorous Conservation

…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….

Philip French-Carson Greear

…married on June 4, 1943. While Philip was in military training, they moved their residency to Helen, Georgia, to be near his parents. Philip was stationed in Japan post World

Samuel B. Jones, Jr.

…Rodora 89: 35-40. Jones, S. B. 1983. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of Georgia, The Friends of the Botanical Garden 12(1): 3-6. Jones, S. B. 1982. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of…

The BGF Gets a New Name

…country to support a public garden, so a more descriptive name may have been deemed unnecessary at that time. But starting in the 1990s, the outside world started to change….

Oren Lloyd Justice

…Brown University (BRU), Butler University (BUT), Field Museum (F), Harvard Herbaria (GH), Marshall University (MUHW), Mississippi State University (MISSA), New York Botanical Garden (NY), North Carolina State University (NCSC), ILL…