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Joseph Basil Girard, an early botanical collector in Arizona

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Girard, a career army surgeon, known as a botanical collector chiefly through a few citations by Rothrock (1879), proves to have collected a considerable series in Arizona, probably in 1874. The probable source of the specimens is discussed. The collection is now deposited at MICH.

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  • Rothrock, J. T. 1879. Botany,In: Lt. G. M. Wheeler. Report upon United State Geographical Surveys west of the one hundredth meridian. Vol. 6. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

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    Rogers McVaugh

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McVaugh, R. Joseph Basil Girard, an early botanical collector in Arizona. Brittonia 30, 131–133 (1978). https://doi.org/10.2307/2806639

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