Budd Elmon Smith

…Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010. 4. http://www.wingate.edu/documents/wu-history.pdf accessed on 8 June 2012. 5. Hastings, Robert J. (December 7, 1985) An interview with Ethel K. Smith. Biblical Recorder, December 7, 1985….

Albert Commons

…signed his specimen labels “A. Commons” or “A.C.”. Most specimens curated at NCU are from Delaware, particularly New Castle County. As we continue to catalog our vascular plant collection it…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…her family’s garden. From her grandmother she learned the parts of a flower, beginning an interest in plants that carried on throughout her life. At the University of Kentucky, Wharton…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

26 October 1911 – 8 August 1994 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has 15 specimens collected by Laura Jarrett. All came to NCU as part…

Richard Joel Reader

…Ecology doctoral thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   SOURCES: 1. Graduate Calendar 2002-2003. Botany. University of Guelph. https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/graduate/2002-2003/programs/bota.html accessed on 8 May 2023.        …

Ken E. Rogers

…(now part of BRIT), US, TENN, and VDB (now part of BRIT).2 “Dr. Rogers left the University [of Southern Mississippi] in 1973. He was later convicted for marijuana-related offenses and…

John Robert Raper

…most frequent collecting locations included Chapel Hill and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and orchids seem to have been his particular interest. Although John Raper was a mycologist, we…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…in the fall of 1953 in the graduate program in the Botany Department; her particular focus was on flora of the Pee Dee River basin. (5, 9) In October, 1954…

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Eaglenest Mountain (4925 feet; 35.4962070 latitude, -83.0431905 longitude) and adjacent North Eaglenest Mountain (5066 feet; 35.5002672 latitude, -83.0416956 longitude) are on Eaglenest Ridge, WSW of Lake Junaluska and NW of…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…he was parish assistant and chaplain of St. Joseph Hospital in Ashland, Wisconsin. In 1936, he came to Quincy, Illinois, where he served the Quincy College Academy for a short…