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    Bernard Boivin

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Contribution No. 186, Plant Research Institute, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.

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Boivin, B. Persoon and the subspecies. Brittonia 14, 327–331 (1962). https://doi.org/10.2307/2805250

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