Orchids: Masters of Deception

…his first book after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin had used these nectar-producing tubes as examples of the precise adaptions of complex structures by natural selection. In this…

Enchantress along the Eno

…New Life. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life accessed on 30 June 2021. The Confluence Natural Area is located at 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC, and is open daily from dawn to dusk. It…

Lillian E. Arnold

…724-740. 3. www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/flashist.htm accessed on 25 October, 2006. 4. Murrill, William A. 1940. Additions to the Florida fungi II. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 67(1): 57-66. 5. Fourteenth Census…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….

Helen Shedd Sherwin

…and Leafspot on Soybeans in Maryland. Phytopathology 42(6): 342. SOURCES: 1. “Helen S. Yu, Garden Club President” Obituary, The Washington Post, 24 November 1990. Accessed on 23 June 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/11/24/author-roald-dahl-dies/0a2b6f8b-c4f0-4b42-8fd1-8493bcbd94f1/…

Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…had encountered (and were puzzled by!) Horse-sugar had been at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in February 2023. Distribution of Horse-sugar (Symplocos tinctoria) in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity…

Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…moved to Corvallis. Needless to say, a cross- country automobile trip with an infant and pulling a U-Haul trailer had both good and bad moments. The next-to-last day of the…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…collected in his native Moore County, North Carolina, but there are a few from Hoke and Lee Counties as well. In addition to NCU other herbaria which curate specimens collected…