Herbarium
…data. Our collections include: Fungi and lichenized fungi from around the world, with a focus on specimens from Southeastern United States (ca. 38,000 specimens) Algae from around the world focusing…
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George Bowyer Rossbach
…George B. Rossbach. No doubt many more specimens collected by him will be found as we continue to catalog our collections. Though Rossbach collected worldwide, most specimens curated by NCU…
A Toast to Polk County, Galax, and Bigleaf Scurfpea
…terribly far away — it’s just one of the many counties of The Old North State I have yet to explore. As is typical with me, a simple newsletter article…
Henry Ashby Rankin
…while he is earning his Masters degree in English at UNC-Chapel Hill, thanks his father for a recent letter that included nature notes. “You caught my eye first on the…
Alpheus Wesley Blizzard
…years old, as living in Manhattan (189 Lexington Avenue) and occupation, “professor” at “N.Y. Univ.” His wife, Ethel (24 years old, English by birth, immigrated to US in 1912) is…
Joseph Austin Holmes
…and Adolphus W. Mangum (Professor of Moral Philosophy, History, and English Literature) were chosen as a committee on the campus charged with planting shrubs and other plants. In October 1885,…
Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr
…for providing photograph of her. SOURCES: 1. Obituary: Pharr, Ruby Deaton Harbison. News Herald, Morganton, North Carolina. 9 March 2015. https://www.morganton.com/obituaries/pharr-ruby-deaton-harbison/article_4673f789-2a54-52c7-bd8c-b28605eaac85.html accessed on 2 June 2020. 2. Winters, Kelly. 1988….
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…
The Story of the Streamhead Lobelia, Lobelia batsonii
…“the new lobelia is close to L. glandulosa which is distinctly hirsute [hairy] in the throat of the corolla…the new species completely lacks hairs inside the flower.” When the news…
The Herbarium’s First Cataloged Lichen Gets Identified by DNA Analysis
…algae collected by naturalist Tadeus Haenke aboard the Descubierta (“Discovery”) on Captain Alessandro Malaspina’s round-the-world voyage 232 years ago.4 Historical Cora specimens have also been successfully sequenced by Dr. Manuela…