Madia sp. The main component of the specimen consists of achenes of Madia sativa Molina, coast tarweed, Asteraceae. Note: According to the treatment in Hickman, J. C., 1993, The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, University of California Press, M. sativa is closely related to and partly interfertile with M. gracilis. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 6 florets of Bromus hordeaceus L., soft brome, Poaceae 4 florets of Vulpia microstachys (Nutt.) Munro, small fescue, Poaceae 3 nutlets of Amsinckia sp., fiddleneck, Boraginaceae 1 floret of Deschampsia sp., hair grass, Poaceae 1 seed of Ranunculus, possibly R. californicus Benth., California buttercup, Ranunculaceae. 1 nutlet of Cryptantha sp., cryptantha, Boraginaceae
Donor:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Collection place:
Northern Sierras, Northern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
Roland Burrage Dixon
Collection date:
1887-1904
Taxon:
Amsinckia and Ranunculus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
tsakam pe". Piece count is blank, description is plural.
Loans:
S2009-2010 #8: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Deborah Meyer (February 12, 2010–July 30, 2010)