Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…pine tree cores are just the latest in the botanical legacy of the Gulf Coast barrier islands preserved by the National Park Service and the University of North Carolina at…

Dear Friends of the Herbarium,

…conducting research, the Mary McKee Felton Intern (UNC-CH 2016) con- ducting research, 8 part-time employees imaging specimens for National Science Foundation grants, a visiting researcher from USDA Plants, and of…

Ellsworth Bethel

rust might be native. Upon this conclusion rests the value of the fall campaign against the white pine blister rust. Bethel’s knowledge of the rusts of the Rocky Mountain region,…

Joseph Austin Holmes

Today, selected specimens of North Carolina plants collected by Holmes are archived at the UNC Herbarium, examples being Lycopodium alopecuroides (L.) Cranfill and Woodwardia areolata, both collected in Duplin County,…

William C. Brumbach

…malacology. The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum (Lee County, Florida, USA) curates many specimens collected by Brumbach. “The scientific collection at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum houses many thousands of records…

Oliver Myles Freeman

…Adger in Polk County, North Carolina, 11 August, 1951. The latest specimen collected by him is Deparia acrostichoides, dated 2 November 1959, from Rutherford County, North Carolina. The University of…

William Willard Ashe

newspaper, the Evening Crescent. In 1879 he purchased the Raleigh Observer, and in 1881 the Daily News, joining both papers as the News and Observer – which is still a…

Albert Commons

…others that are today rare in the state and are considered to be of conservation concern by the Delaware Natural Heritage Program (see table below). One species is known today

Clyde Ritchie Bell

the International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Utrecht, Netherlands. viii, 128 pp. 1967 North Carolina Botanical Garden is many things. Southern Gardens…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Henn. (now classified as Bambusiomyces shiraianus (Henn.) K. Vánky), a pathogen of bamboo, from his family estate on Avery Island, Louisiana. While McIlhenny is remembered today the leader of the