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Collectors of the UNC Herbarium
Mildred Gant Stites Reed
(died 1967)
Information compiled by Carol Ann McCormick
(August 2005)
The University of North Carolina Herbarium
has catalogued about 2 dozen specimens collected by Mildred Gant
Stites Reed. All were collected between 1933 and 1935, and most
were co-collected with her spouse, John Frederick Reed. Most specimens
in the NCU collection came as a gift from the Jesup Herbarium of
Dartmouth College in 2002.
Mildred Stites Reed earned a masters thesis from Duke University
in 1935. Her advisor was Dr. H. L. Blomquist, and her thesis was
entitled “A taxonomic and floristic study of the genus Cyperus
in North America.”
Mildred Stites Reed died in 1967, and was survived by spouse
John F. Reed and sons John, Robert, and James.
Publication:
Mildred Stites Reed (1936) The genus Cyperus
in North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
52: 295-306.
  
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Herbarium
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Last Updated: 26 August
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