Ernest Gibbes Patton

…1. Faculty Gallery. https://www.wofford.edu/library/archives/content.aspx?id=452413 accessed on 13 March 2017.” 2. Dr. E. Gibbes Patton, Aug. 28, 2010. Wofford Today, Fall 2010, p. 30. Office for Communications & Marketing, Wofford College….

Spelunking in The Caves of Chapel Hill

…one with the surname of “Cave” or “Caves” — but that did not rule out that these hypothetical troglodytes lived in rural Orange County or Durham County. Neither of these…

Delzie Demaree

…plants on the spot in his rugged, beat-up field press…He discarded newspapers printed with comic strips. He reasoned that to use comics for pressing plants was to tempt an hourly…

Botanical Art Fundamentals Program

the natural world Have an understanding of the botany of the native plants of the southeastern U.S. as a foundation for accurate botanical representation Enroll Today Jump to: ➢ Program…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…throughout the southeastern United States. The earliest specimen that we have found to date is Rudbeckia umbrosa collected in 1923 from Montgomery County, Maryland, while the latest we have found…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…gift of specimens from The Natural History Museum (BM) in London, United Kingdom in 2009; most of the specimens in that gift were collected by Ferdinand Rugel. Other herbaria in…

Carnivorous Conservation

…plant, it’s an opportunity to live a little longer in a habitat nearly barren of nutrients. The Venus flytrap, and carnivorous plants like them, are oddities of the plant world….

Random Walk through the Herbarium

…Other than that, my cataloging efforts are usually based on what my husband refers to as my “random walk through the herbarium.” For example, I am reading a novel, Library…