Seraph A. Bliss

…Bliss entered Mount Holyoke College in 1888 and earned a A. B. and B. S. in 1895. She was a lab assistant in the Physics Department at Mount Holyoke College…

Spring Native Plant Sale

…sale will be rain or shine: we recommend sunscreen if it’s sunny or a rain jacket if it’s rainy! Again, thanks for your interest in the sale and native plants!…

Workdays

If you’re interested in helping out, you must complete our volunteer information and liability forms and document that you agree to follow our Code of Conduct and Food Safety Policies…

William McCally Pollock

…World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…corps in Europe during World War II and settled in St. Louis, where he earned a doctorate in botany from Washington University in 1949. He did postdoctoral work at University…

Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.

…Illinois State Academy of Science 65: 82-83. 2. SERNEC Data Portal. 2023. http//:sernecportal.org/index.php. Accessed on September 21. 3. IPNI (2023). International Plant Names Index. Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org, The…

Charles Ferson Durant

(1805-1873) The pleasure experienced [in the study of algae] is ample remuneration for the patient industry required in its pursuit. The gay iridescent plants seem tempting; the shore scenery is…

Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…for its 100th birthday it will get a name of its own.   For an example of a generic shift, Psilocybe cokeri Murrill, named in 1923 in honor of UNC-CH…