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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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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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