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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Seeds, museum number 1-10390, described as The main component of the specimen consists of achenes of Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindl., common madia, Asteraceae. Note: According to the treatment in Hickman, J. C., 1993, The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, University of California Press, M. elegans is highly variable and intermediates blur distinction among extremes. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 58 seeds of Collinsia heterophylla G. Buist ex Graham, Chinese-houses, Plantaginaceae (also placed in Scrophulariaceae); 16 seeds of Triteleia ixioides (W. T. Aiton) Greene, yellow-brodiaea, Themidaceae (also placed in Alliaceae or Liliaceae); 16 seeds of Silene sp., catchfly, Caryophyllaceae; 12 seeds of Clarkia sp., clarkia, Onagraceae; 11 seeds of Dichelostemma capitatum (Benth.) Alph. Wood, bluedicks, Themidaceae (also placed in Alliaceae or Liliaceae) 11 florets of Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro, small fescue, Poaceae 6 nutlets of Salvia columbariae Benth., chia, Lamiaceae 5 seeds of Gilia sp., gilia, Polemoniaceae; 2 mericarps of Sanicula sp., sanicle, Apiaceae; 2 nutlets of Cryptantha sp., cryptantha, Boraginaceae; 1 floret of Vulpia myuros (L.) C.C. Gmel., rat-tail fescue, Poaceae; 1 achene of Rigiopappus leptocladus A. Gray, wireweed, Asteraceae; 1 achene of Agoseris sp., agoseris, Asteraceae; 1 seed of Allophyllum sp., Grant, false gillyflower, Polemoniaceae; 1 floret of Poa secunda J. Presl, Sandberg bluegrass, Poaceae; 1 achene of Coreopsis sp., tickseed, Asteraceae; 1 seed of Trifolium obtusiflorum Hook. f., clammy clover, Fabaceae; 1 floret of Gastridium phleoides (Nees & Meyen) C. E. Hubb., nit grass, Poaceae; 3 unknown
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Seeds, museum number 1-10440, described as The main component of the specimen consists of achenes of Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindl., common madia, Asteraceae. Note: According to the treatment in Hickman, J. C., 1993, The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, University of California Press, M. elegans is highly variable and intermediates blur distinction among extremes. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 11 achenes of Ranunculus californicus Benth., California buttercup, Ranunculaceae; 10 seeds of Collinsia heterophylla G. Buist ex Graham, purple Chinese houses, Plantaginaceae (also placed in Scrophulariaceae); 8 seeds of Dichelostemma capitatum (Benth.) Alph. Wood, bluedicks, Themidaceae (also placed in Alliaceae or Liliaceae); 7 seeds of Gilia sp., gilia, Polemoniaceae; 6 seeds of Triteleia ixioides (W. T. Aiton) Greene, yellow-brodiaea or prettyface, Themidaceae (also placed in Alliaceae or Liliaceae); 5 florets of Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro, small fescue, Poaceae; 3 seeds of Trifolium sp., possibly T. obtusiflorum Hook. & Arn., clammy clover, creek clover, or sour-salt clover, Fabaceae; 2 achenes of Potentilla glandulosa Lindl., sticky cinquefoil cf. USDA Plants Database [Drymocallis glandulosa (Lindl.) Rydb. cf. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://www.ars-grin. gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl (07 July 2009)], Rosaceae; 1 seed of Luzula comosa E. Mey., Pacific woodrush, Juncaceae; 1 floret of Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel., annual fescue, Poaceae; 1 floret of Poa sp., possibly P. secunda J. Presl, big bluegrass, Poaceae; 1 seed of Lupinus sp., lupine, Fabaceae; 1 mericarp of Sanicula sp., sanicle, Apiaceae; 1 spikelet of Gastridium phleoides (Nees & Meyen) C.E. Hubbard, nit grass, Poaceae (Nomenclature follows the treatment in Barkworth, M. E. et al. (eds.), 2007, Flora of North America, Vol. 24, Poaceae, part 1, Oxford Univ. Press.)