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  • Watercolor Painting Depicting the Bennet Family Record

    Date made
    April 12, 1804
    1804-04-12
  • Coursetia glandulosa A. Gray

    Collection Date
    16 Feb 1976
  • Smilax rotundifolia L.

    Collection Date
    27 Oct 1988
  • Veronica peregrina subsp. xalapensis

    Collection Date
    2 Apr 1891
  • Callisia repens (Jacq.) L.

    Collection Date
    11 Jul 1998
  • Oenothera humifusa Nutt.

    Collection Date
    15 Jul 1989
  • Symphyotrichum dumosum var. subulifolium (Torr. & A. Gray) G.L. Nesom

    Collection Date
    1889
  • Clusia pusilla Steyerm.

    Collection Date
    26 Oct 1944
  • Remijia pedunculata (H. Karst.) Fluck.

    Collection Date
    17 May 1944
  • Palafoxia arida var. arida B.L. Turner & M.I. Morris

    Collection Date
    Mar 1882

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