Effie Boon

…Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com…

Ellsworth Bethel

…“Up to 1907 I had the invaluable assistance of Mr. Bethel, of Denver, and able and tireless collector, thoroughly acquainted with all parts of Colorado.” Of the 94 species of…

Guy Richard Bisby

…fungi of India. New Delhi, India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research.     SOURCES: MyCoPortal . 2022. http://www.mycoportal.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on May 28. Partial publications list http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cgi-bin/bibquery.pl?author=bisby,%20g.r. Photo of Bisby http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/pics/0001911b.jpg…

Oren Lloyd Justice

…two specimens collected by Oren Lloyd Justice in Alabama in 1940 and 1941. NCU already had at least one other specimen collected by Justice: Podostemum ceratophyllum collected in 1938 from…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…August, 1890, had two brothers, Nelson C., born in October, 1893, and Myron C., born in March 1899. The family had a farm in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.3 In…

Dennis Harold Latham

…Dr. John Nathaniel Couch of the Botany Department at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who had provided guidance for the project.8 Latham had collected the fungus “from a moderately dry,…

Allen Hierome Curtiss

…D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. 8. Wikipedia contributors. “Peaks of…

2021 Wildflower of the Year

…biting insects. Additionally, the berries are edible, and though somewhat bland and mealy when consumed raw, they can be cooked and prepared into jelly or wine. Beautyberry is very easy…

William Battle Cobb

…1915 [Collier] Cobb had used a portion of Mary Know Gatlin Cobb’s dowry to purchase land and build houses on Cobb Terrace [35.917169 latitude, -79.054471 longitude in downtown Chapel Hill]…”5…

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…wellness in 1997. In the 2000s, she traveled abroad, living in seven different countries across four continents where she deepened and broadened her knowledge of plants. Relocating to the Piedmont…