The University of North Carolina Herbarium
(NCU) has catalogued approximately 140 vascular plant specimens, 100 lichen
specimens, and 140 moss specimens collected by Paul O. Schallert. NCU has
just begun cataloguing our mycological collection, and Schallert specimens
are represented there as well. With
only about 10% of NCU's vascular plant collection catalogued, no doubt more
specimens collected by him will be found.
Schallert was a physician and a serious
collector of cryptogams and vascular plants. He collected throughout the
United States, with particular emphasis on the area around his home in
Forsyth County, North Carolina. In
1920 Schallert bought the “David Reid House” in Winston-Salem.
Built ca. 1894, this house located at 1820 South Main Street [in 1982
was] designated a Local Historic Landmark by the Forsyth County Historic
Resources Commission. “The David Reid
House is one of the finest late 19th century Queen Anne style
dwellings in the Washington Park neighborhood, and one of only a few
remaining in Winston-Salem… In 1920, Paul O. Schallert bought the
property. Schallert was a physician
and surgeon, and had an office in the house.
He was also extremely interested in botany, teaching the subject at
Salem College. He travelled
extensively to collect and identify herbal and botanical samples. Schallert was an early pioneer in the
campaign against tobacco smoking, which was quite an unpopular stance at the
time. He left Winston-Salem in 1943 to
join the Army as a contract surgeon.
After World War II, he moved to Florida.”1 Schallert’s home in Florida was in Seminole
County. Schallert usually used
"P.O. Schallert, M.D." on specimen labels; location information on
specimens is frequently “My yard” or “Near my house.”
Schallert gave his collection of hepatics
(liverworts) to Duke University (DUKE) in the 1930's. Schallert's
correspondence with American botanists is preserved at the Botanical Research
Institute (BRIT) in Fort Worth, Texas, while other papers are held by the
University of Central Florida Libraries in Orlando, Florida.
Schallert was a graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was
a member of The Men’s Glee Club in 1937.
Dr. Schallert was married to Grace J. Schallert.
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PUBLICATIONS
Schallert, P. O. (1934) Schweinitz' collecting-ground
in North Carolina. Bartonia 16: 8-12.
PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS THAT CITE
SCHALLERT SPECIMENS, OR REFER TO SCHALLERT'S PARTICIPATION IN A MEETING OR
COLLECTING EXPEDITION:
Grout, A. J. (1923) Leucodon julaceus
(Hedw.) Sulliv., with flagella. The Bryologist 26(3): 30.
Evans, Alexander W. (1923) Notes on North American Hepaticae. X. The
Bryologist 26(6): 55-67 + viii.
Beals, A. T. (1927) The Philadelphia meeting of the Sullivant Moss Society.
The Bryolotist 30(2): 17-20.
Wherry, Edgar T. (1932) Range-extensions and other observations, 1931-1932.
American Fern Journal 22(3): 79-86.
Conard, Henry S. (1934) The moss foray at Highlands, N.C. June 11-13, 1934.
The Bryologist 37(5): 77-78.
Sayre, Geneva (1934) Decurrent leaf cells in Climacium. The
Bryologist 37(5): 83-85.
Blomquist, H. L. (1936) Hepaticae of North Carolina. The Bryologist 39(3):
49-67.
Welch, Winona H. (1936) The moss foray in North Carolina, June 13-15, 1936.
The Bryologist 39(6): 122-123.
Blomquist, H.L. (1937) Mosses of North Carolina. I. Sphagnales. The
Bryologist 40(4): 67-71.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1938) The mosses of North Carolina: II. Introduction. The
Bryologist 41(1): 1-11.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1938) The mosses of North Carolina. IV. Archidiaceae to
Seligeriaceae (concluded). The Bryologist 41(5): 118-123.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1939) The mosses of North Carolina: III. Andreaceaceae to
Fissidentaceae. The Bryologist 41(4): 82-90.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1939) The mosses of North Carolina: V. Dicranaceae to
Calymperaceae. The Bryologist 43(3): 62-70.
Berry, Edward Cain (1941) A monograph of the genus Parmelia in North
America, north of Mexico. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 28(1):
31-146.
Evans, Alexander W. (1947) A study of certain North American Cladoniae. The
Bryologist 50(1): 14-51.
Kucyniak, James (1949) Jungermannia tristis and Atrichum
macmellani in Quebec. The Bryologist 52(2): 62-64.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1951) The mosses of North Carolina VI. Encalyptaceae to
Pottiaceae. The Bryologist 54(3): 146-161.
Nielsen, C. S. (1956) Notes on Stigonemataceae from Southeastern United
States. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 75(4): 427-436.
Nielsen, C. S. and Grace C. Madsen (1956) Florida Scytonemataceae II.
American Midland Naturalist 56(1): 116-`25.
Andrews, A. LeRoy (1957) Taxonomic notes. XIII. The genus Campylium.
The Bryologist 60(2): 127-135.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1958) The mosses of North Carolina. VIII. Grimmiaceae to
Orthotrichaceae. The Bryologist 61(4): 285-313.
Anderson, Lewis E. (1958) The mosses of North Carolina: VII. Addenda and
corrections. The Bryologist 61(3): 204-213.
Matthews, James F., Lawrence S. Barden, and Christopher R. Matthews (1977)
Corrections of the chromosome number, distribution and misidentifications of
the federally endangered sunflower, Helianthus schweinitzii
T. & G. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 124(2): 198-209.
Andrus, Richard E. (1979) Sphagnum bartlettianum in the southeastern
United States. The Bryologist 82(2): 198-203.
Hong, Won Shic (1980) Hepaticae of the North Cascades Range, Washington. The
Bryologist 83(1): 94-102.
SOURCES:
1. David Reid House. Local Historic Landmark Program. Forsyth County Historic Resources
Commission. http://www.cityofws.org/Assets/CityOfWS/Documents/Planning/HRC/Local_Landmarks/LHL_Sheets/42_DavidReidHouse.pdf
accessed on 5 January 2013.
2.
Yackety Yack, 1937. University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Yearbook.
Ancestry.com U.S. School Yearbooks [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2010.
