Richard J. LeBlond

…Hoffmann. 2011. Lost and found: Remnants of the Big Savannah and their relationship to west savannas in North Carolina. Castanea 76(4): 348-365. LeBlond, Richard J. and Daniel F. Brunton. 2010….

William Chambers Coker

…He had also begun the planting of the Coker Arboretum adjacent to Davie Hall. Coker’s research interests were far-ranging. His Ph.D. research concerned the embryogeny of Taxodium (bald cypress). He…

Frederick William Gray

…devoted to the growing of gladiolus: Yearbook (Gladiolus-growing), The Illinois Glad Bulletin, “Gladiolus“, Calgary, Canada, and the New Zealand Yearbook. Although his contributions in this field are of much importance,…

Norton G. Miller

…State Museum, died in Syracuse on December 7, 2011 following a 20-year battle with prostate cancer. Norton was born in Buffalo on February 4, 1942 and completed a bachelor’s of…

Eugène Poilane

…in Tonkin but had lost almost everything at the end of the Franco-Vietnamese war, when he abandoned his property in what became North Vietnam. Llinares had no love for the…

Digging into the Science

…Daniel Gluesenkamp. 2020. Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 Knapp Wesley M., Derick B. Poindexter, and Alan S. Weakley. 2020. The true identity…

Arthur Stanley Pease

…Four introduced plants at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rhodora 10: 167. —- (1908) Preliminary lists of New England Plants XV, addenda. Rhodora 10: 36. —- (1909) Certain railroad weeds of northern New…

Max Hoyt Hommersand

…Report for 1970-1971 to National Oceanographic [i.e., Oceanic] and Atmospheric Agency [ie, Adminsitration], Office of Sea Grant Programs, Grant No. GH103, Project UNC-10. Chapel Hill, N.C.; Morehead City, N.C.: Institute…

Henry Ashby Rankin

…Henry Rankin, who had discovered the plant. Small’s description was published in Addisonia 13: 37-38. In 2006 Rankin’s granddaughters, Dorothy and Douglass Rankin, gave his papers to the Southern Historical…