Albert Commons

…is likely additional specimens will be found. NCU’s vascular plants can be searched at www.sernecportal.org NCU curates only about 40 fungal specimens collected by Commons, and most of these were…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…Inner Bluegrass of Kentucky. Castanea, 45(3), 149–165. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4033225 Wharton, Mary E., Bruce Frederick Denbo, and Clyde T. Burke. 1980. The Horse World of the Bluegrass. John Bradford Press, Lexington, Kentucky….

Egbert Hamilton Walker

…1991 of complications from an influenza infection.”1   SOURCES: Meyer, Frederick G. 1992. Egbert Hamilton Walker (1899-1991). Taxon 41 (3): 618-620. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1222855 Data Portal. 2021. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on November 24….

Ken E. Rogers

…Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 95(5): 423-424. Rogers, Ken E. and J.K. Underwood (1968) Some noteworthy Tennessee plants. Castanea 33(3): 260-261. SOURCES: 1. http://www.usm.edu/herbarium/about_us.htm accessed on 19 May 2021. 2. Rogers,…

Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery

…in Oak Forest Cemetery in Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina with her husband and youngest daughter.(1)   SOURCES Find A Grave Memorial ID: 18899410 “Laura Ellen Jarrett McGlamery”. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18899410/laura-ellen-mcglamery accessed…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…accessed on 26 September 2011. 6. The Gallinas River is situated near the present Sierra Leone – Liberia border, was a principal departure point for vessels carrying enslaved people. http://www.pdavis.nl/Gallinas.htm…

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…

James Heathman Horton

9 January 1931- 5 May 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 300 vascular plant specimens collected by James Heathman Horton. As we…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…cm. longis, subpinnatis, segmentis 7-11-jugis, anguste oblongo-spathulatis, sub-pinnatifidis, ala costali perangusta vel subnulla recedit. Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, No. 1,896,275, collected in woods along “Back Road” at Lanedon…

Ralph Page Ashworth, Jr.

…States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168716088/ralph-page-ashworth: accessed 07 November 2022), memorial page for Ralph Page Ashworth…