European herbaria collections notebook
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Vesicaria [beaquerella] lasiocarpa Hook. I don't see that this was properly published in Bot. Mag. check for inclusion elsewhere. Specimen bears no mark of origin. (1) broken stem is 4.5 dm., branched, sparsely pub. with spreading simple or mostly forked trichs., earlier leaves sessile, at least the upper auriculate, rather deeply lobed, 1.5-4 cm. long, 8-15 mm. wide, sparsely pubescent with forked or several-rayed trichomes, more or less appressed; pedicels slender, erect + gently curved downward at extremities, pubescent; siliquea hirsute with long simple ascending hairs; styles on young fruits 2 mm. long. (2) Texas, Plots [no 1663 = 383 ft. ruta, etre Bejar y el rio de la Trinidad mayo 1828] same species as (1) beaquerella — Mancos, Colo, Baker, Earle & Tracy 85 Basal leaves entire, obtuse, 3-6 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, silvery, pub stellate with rays distinct, not coarse nor exceedingly fine; pub extends to siliques, 10 stems arising below tufts of leaves, these unbranched