Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures
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Frederick Gustav Meyer
…the Cosmos Club, the Explorers Club and National Presbyterian Church. Although he traveled around the world to find, identify and preserve plants, Dr. Meyer did not need exotic destinations or…
Egbert Hamilton Walker
…Dr. F. R. Fosberg has said: “Any perceptive botanist who works extensively in the general Old World collections in the U.S. National Herbarium can scarcely fail to appreciate the prevailing…
John Nathaniel Couch
…between the rusts and Septobasidium. University of North Carolina Record 323: 9. A new fungus intermediate between the rusts and Septobasidium. Mycologia 29: 665-673. Notes on the genus Micromyces. Mycologia…
Robert Rolland Brinker, O. F. M.
…(MWI: vascular plants), United States National Herbarium (US: lichens), and United States National Fungus Collections (BPI: fungi).2 “The Reverend Robert R. Brinker, O.F.M. [Order of Friars Minor], professor of biological…
Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast wins National Outdoor Book Award
2019 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED A gripping tale of a kayak voyage across the Pacific. A consummate biography of the great conservationist George Bird Grinnell. A thought provoking…
New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium
…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…
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…
Mary Eugenia Wharton
…include those of Meijer [Meijer, W. (1992) Mary Wharton. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter 7(1): 2-3] and Wieland [Wieland, C. (1992) Mary Eugenia Wharton, 1912-1991. Kentucky Native Plant Society Newsletter…
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…