Happy Birthday, Psilocybe!

…when ingested metabolizes into psilocin, a potent hallucinogen.2 Prior to shipping the specimens to Utah, Dr. Cotter photographed them for inclusion in our online catalog, mycoportal.org. One specimen (NCU-F-0009757) stood…

William Basil Fox

…Fox (1915-1952), first curator of NCSC [fox: latin vulpes]) was one of the first, exclusively online, peer-reviewed, botanical journals. The journal was active for approximately ten years, from 2002 to…

Tree Cores Come to the Herbarium

…images of each core and its label for the online catalog of herbarium specimens, sernecportal.org. These tree cores have joined our existing collection of specimens from the Gulf Islands National…

Edwin Lynn Bridges

…responses of the southeastern flora, and new species descriptions, Edwin is also very active in the development of citizen science through online platforms such as Facebook and iNaturalist. His primary…

Lisa Marie Giencke

…the Jones Center at Ichauway Herbarium (ICHAUWAY) included in sernecportal.org, a searchable online database of herbarium specimens.   PUBLICATIONS: Giencke, L. M., R. C. Denhof, L. K. Kirkman, D. J….

Anne Elizabeth Bowden McCrary

…rutilus (Coquillett). M.A. Thesis, Zoology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. SOURCES: 1. Steelman, Ben. November 8, 2011. Wilmington naturalist McCrary leaves local legacy. StarNews Online. https://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20111108/wilmington-naturalist-mccrary-leaves-local-legacy accessed…