Land Rich, Cash Poor

It may surprise you to learn that your “Garden” membership is actually membership in the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Inc., a private, 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that supports the…

Arthur Oliver Tucker, III

…books including the popular The Encyclopedia of Herbs (2009), and has authored over 400 scientific and popular publications and lectures. Art was also a well-respected, award-winning, international speaker. His love…

Kenneth Bryan Raper

…be loosely linked to the a mating-type locus and could be recombined into the A mating type. The mechanism of fertilization has not been completely elucidated. Coiled ascogonia were found…

Velma Dare Matthews

…yearbook of Coker College6 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 400 vascular plants collected by Velma Dare Matthews. As we continue to catalog…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…larger than netsuke. Unlike netsuke , which have a specific purpose, okimono are purely decorative and are displayed in the tokonoma [alcove]”.13 After Alma Whiffen Barksdale’s death in 1981, Lane…

William McCally Pollock

…so this seems likely but subsequent documents do not show a link between Ray and William. (9) The 1910 US Census shows William living with the extended family of his…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…and identified all but one of the plants, a missing link that nagged them. “One fern, Scolopendrium, appeared so often we were sure that the artist had seen it grown,”…

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…

Carl John Burk

…are not yet cataloged in an on-line public format.4 Burk was born in Troy, Ohio on 30 December 1935.1 After receiving an A. B. from Miami University in Ohio in…

Preserves and Natural Areas

…conservation easements. Sharing borders with the Mason Farm Biological Reserve, the Parker Preserve, and the William Lanier Hunt Arboretum, the Laurel Hill Nature Preserve is an important link connecting and…