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    Edgar Theodore Wherry (1885–1982) was an American mineralogist, soil scientist and botanist. He had a deep interest in ferns and Sarracenia. Wherry earned...
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  • a few sites where those species grow together. First collected by Edgar T. Wherry in 1935, it was largely ignored until a new colony was found in 1961...
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    fields. Edgar T. Wherry (1885–1982), mineralogist and botanist, became interested in the ringing rocks while teaching at Lehigh University. Wherry theorized...
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    the most difficult phlox plants to positively identify". Botanist Edgar T. Wherry (1955) recognized three subspecies, subsp. glaberrima in its eastern...
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    genus. Sarracenia rosea was first identified by the American botanist Edgar T. Wherry as a "mutant" form of S. purpurea in 1933 based on specimens collected...
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    becoming the Hoverter and Sholl Box Huckleberry Natural Area.) However, Edgar T. Wherry was able to locate the Delaware colony, thought lost, in 1919, and...
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  • Philadelphia, and began studying mineralogy with Edgar T. Wherry and others around 1910. Trudell, Wherry, and Sam Gordon (1897–1952) were the co-founders...
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    Edgar T. Wherry (1885-1982) described Trillium cernuum f. tangerae in 1945. With deep rose-colored petals, the form is thought to be a hybrid with T. erectum...
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  • Irving Widmer Bailey 1959 Kenneth Neatby 1962 Edmund H. Fulling 1964 Edgar T. Wherry 1966 Hally Jolivette Sax and Karl Sax 1969 Stanley A. Cain 1970 William...
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    var. serratum when he segregated Chamaefilix from Asplenium in 1931. Edgar T. Wherry, in 1940, synonymized not only var. serratum with var. incisum, but...
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