The main component of the specimen consists of Avena fatua L., wild oat, Poaceae. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 27 florets of Bromus hordeaceus L., soft chess, Poaceae; 8 florets of Avena sativa L., oat, Poaceae; 4 florets of Avena sp., possibly A. occidentalis Durieu, Poaceae (based on treatment in; Barkworth, M. E. et al. (eds.), 2007, Flora of North America, Vol. 24, Poaceae, part 1, Oxford Univ. Press.); 2 florets, fruits, and 1 seed of Trifolium sp., possibly T. bifidum A. Gray, notch-leaf clover, pinole clover, Fabaceae; 1 floret, fruit and seed of Trifolium sp., possibly T. dichotomum Hook. & Arn., branched Indian clover, Fabaceae
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Coyote Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Coyote Valley
Culture or time period:
Northern Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
October 8, 1902
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Food
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
These seeds were sampled and sent to the Department of Food and Agriculture for identification by Kat Anderson and others in her lab. She is the ethnoecologist at the National Plant Data Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service at the University of California. The seeds were returned in December of 2009.
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)