Dennis Harold Latham

…Robertson County, Tennessee.1,2   PUBLICATIONS: Latham, Dennis Harold. 1933. A Cercospora Leaf Spot on Cowpeas. A.M. Thesis, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Latham, Dennis H. 1934. Life History of a…

Luther Stanford Beard

…along the lower Deep River of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 75(2): 132-134. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24334372 SOURCES: https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/familytree/person/tree/21655164/person/302197636554/facts accessed on 12 November 2020. Retirement Recognition Dinner , Campbell…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…hardness. Journal of the Elisha Mitchecll Scientific Society 38(1, 2): 76-83. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24331526 ) Yocum, L. Edwin (1924) The translocation of the food materials of the wheat seedling. Doctoral dissertation, Iowa…

Max Hoyt Hommersand

…In First International Phycological Congress 1982, St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, August 8th – 14th, Scientific Programme and Abstracts. [s.l.: International Phycological Congress]. (with Paul W. Gabrielson). The morphology of Agardhiella…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

for its 100th birthday it will get a name of its own.   For an example of a generic shift, Psilocybe cokeri Murrill, named in 1923 in honor of UNC-CH…

Spring Native Plant Sale on May 7

…will be able to purchase southeastern native plants grown at the Garden’s nursery as well as Cure Nursery, Field to Cottage Nursery, Growing Wild Nursery, and Mellow Marsh Farm. A…

Plant Sales are Back!

The garden may be closed but you can still buy great native plants from our nursery and, in doing so, help support our organization! How to Purchase Plants from NCBG…

Open Studio Continues Despite Pandemic

by Angelica Edwards, NCBG Communications Intern Illustration by Judy Lutter Despite the pandemic circumstances, the Botanical Art and Illustration Open Studio Coffee Hour has remained a way for local artists…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…on the White House roof to protect the president.””   SOURCE: Sullivan, Patricia. 2006. Obituary: Frederick Meyer, 88. The Washington Post. November 14, 2006. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/11/14/frederick-meyer-88/5079af3c-74b9-43c8-a02f-e352f18513e1/ accessed on 13 December 2022….

Norton G. Miller

…woods with the family dog, Nipper, became an avid birder, and studied many natural history subjects with Mabel James, a local naturalist who was his first mentor. He developed an…