The Paper Garden

…with paper crafts, but not paper flowers. To make the paper flowers, she uses German and Italian Crepe paper and handmade Japanese paper, which come in a variety of colors….

George Washington Carver

…Carver is known as the “father of chemurgy” for his work in converting organic material to industrial uses.”(1) “New Alabama Fungi” by J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart in…

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…or grottoes. There are numerous surface mines throughout the County, including Piedmont Minerals Company Mine near Hillsborough which yields pyrophyllite and the American Stone Company near White Cross which yields…

Herbarium Identifies Ten New Species in July

  By Bao Anh Tran, Communications Intern Hidden amid similar specimens, differing only in its “weirdness,” a new plant discovered by herbarium associate Kevan Schoonover McClelland was finally given a…

Frederick William Anderson

…at mycoportal.org. An example of a fungal specimen collected by F. W. Anderson, curated at NCU: Erysiphe communis, Deer Lodge, Montana, October 1888       Many Anderson specimens curated…

Stanley Adair Cain

…Hitchc., previously considered endemic to Mt. LeConte, Tennessee. Castanea 56(2): 147-149. 6. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on February 04. 7. Index Herbariorum. https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/. Accessed on February 4, 2023….

Devoted to Dalea

…material. https://saveplants.org/plant-profile/?CPCNum=1350 I could devote an entire article to the biogeography of this region! For just a taste, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wales_Ridge * in older wildflower guides Dalea may be called Kuhnistera,…

John Nathaniel Couch

…Proceedings of the Joint U.S.-Japan Seminar on Microbial Control of Insect Pests, Fukuoka 21-23 April 1967. Fukuoka: United States – Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation. 1968 (with C. E. Bland)….

Arthur Stanley Pease

…Rhodora 4: 249. —- (1902) Erodium malacoides at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Rhodora 5: 39. —- (1903) Genus Trisetum in Andover, Massachusetts. Rhodora 5: 289. —- (1904) Preliminary lists of New England…