Walking with Walter and William

…genera. Today, 88 of these species and one genus (Amsonia) still bear the valid names provided by Walter in his Flora. Walter died on 17 January 1789, shortly after the

Gerald McCarthy

…high-road and byway, bog and mountain peak, ever on the look-out for floral strangers, whom they ruthlessly sacrifice to the glue-and-paper deity.” — Gerald McCarthy The University of North Carolina…

Mary Steed Stipe Eyles

…Mr. Russell said. “Frankly, in this day and age, she would be fired.” He bemoaned the fact that today most students don’t have that kind of relationship with a teacher….

Ferdinand Blanchard

…most southerly follows Mill Brook from Reading thru Brownsville where it begins to be “double tracked” to The Narrows and enters Windsor Street past Ascutney Mill Dam Pond from the

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…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…found in US. Blue Ridge Three-lobed Coneflower, Rudbeckia rupestris Chick. was published in 1881 in Coult. Bot. Gaz.vi: 188. This plant is found in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and…

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…year! Did you know chickweed is edible? So are columbine flowers! Youngia japonica (oriental false hawksbeard) is in flower. The good news is this makes it easier to see and…

Francis Stuart Chapman

The 1930 US census has Stuart Chapman still living in Winston-Salem, but now his occupation is listed as “Proprietor, News Dealer; Industry: Newspaper Stand.” (9) Chapman collected only sporadically in…