Carolina Moonlight Garden Party

…about ticket purchasing or event sponsorship? Contact Stephen Keith at 919-962-9458. Buy Tickets Gala Planning Committee Gail Perry Melanie Christian Amy Helwig Dunlap Virginia Buysse Thank you to our growing…

John Nathaniel Couch

(1896-1986) John Nathaniel Couch was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia on October 12, 1896 to John Henry Couch, a Baptist minister, and Sally Love Terry Couch, a schoolteacher. In…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

(1912-2015) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged about 150 vascular plant specimens collected by Batson, who usually signed his herbarium labels “W. T. Batson”….

John Robert Raper

…of Sciences, Washington, D.C. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/raper-john.pdf. 2. 1958 John R. Raper Dope Sheet ’33 Yackety Yack Revisited. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 3. Williams, Dudley (1974) Memorandum…

Dr. John Loomis Blodgett

…concerning the colony established at Greenville, a settlement about 150 miles southeast of Monrovia.3 The town was built ca. 1838 by colonists of the Mississippi Colonization Society and was named…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…information on Benedict’s specimens at VPI, see Mitchell, Richard S. and Leonard J. Uttal (1970) The Benedict plant and seed collections now at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Castanea 35(2): 150-152. In…

Douglas Dwight Sharp

(30 September 1945 – 29 April 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates approximately 150 vascular plant specimens collected by Douglas D. Sharp. Most were…

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Gary and his co-authors, Ricardo Miranda-Gonzalez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) and Frank Bungartz (Arizona State University) published their findings in Phytotaxa 589 (3). They note that while the original…

James Heathman Horton

…a faculty member in the Biology Department from 1961-1992. In addition to NCU and WCUH, other herbaria which curate specimens collected by Horton include: Appalachian State University (BOON), Arizona State…