Seeds

Museum number:
1-10440
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010440
Alternate number:
452 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.114, Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254
Description:
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.)
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Picayune rancheria, Madera County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Madera; Picayune
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Ranunculus californicus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1904 and 1906
Context of use:
Used as food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Piece count on card: "1", description is plural.
Loans:
S1987-1988 #41: University of North Carolina/Geirge R. Holcomb (March 29, 1988–July 6, 1990) and S2008-2009 #11: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Department of Agriculture, UC Davis (April 6, 2009–December 1, 2009)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Seeds, accession 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.)Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Seeds, accession 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.)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seeds, accession 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.)Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seeds, accession 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.)Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Seeds, accession 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.)

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