…19th centuries, enslaved African Americans were forced to tend tar kilns and work the turpentine orchards of longleaf pines. The naval stores they produced made North Carolina the world’s leading…
…a fold of newsprint, with a label tucked in with the plant. There were 35 plants in all; the collection of Carex cristatella, “crested sedge,” had enough material for two…
…developments and habitat destruction of today’s time took place. He made the most of this opportunity by doing what he loved, exploring, collecting, and building the herbarium he established at…
…Carolina Rocky Face Mountain is an outlier of the Brushy Mountains which start near the city of Lenoir in Caldwell County and run northeast through Alexander, Wilkes, and Iredell Counties…
…region of the world where the organism is native: caroliniana (of the Carolinas), virginicus (of Virginia), occidentalis (western), orientalis (eastern), americanus (of the Americas), europea (of Europe), sinensis (of China),…
…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…
…4. Ancestry.com World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Serive…
…copy of this difficult-to-find 8 page document. Floretta Anna Allen Curtiss (1822-1899). Photograph from Wynne, Michael J. (1996) Phycological Trailblazer No. 9: Floretta Allen Curtiss. Phycological Society of America Newsletter…
…Rodora 89: 35-40. Jones, S. B. 1983. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of Georgia, The Friends of the Botanical Garden 12(1): 3-6. Jones, S. B. 1982. Director’s report. Newsletter, University of…
…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…