Small flat brown seeds used as food; similar to but different from 1-10197. 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 capsule: 20 seeds of Trifolium ciliolatum Benth., foothill clover, Fabaceae; 15 florets of Vulpia bromoides (L.) Gray, brome fescue, Poaceae; 3 achenes of Ranunculus californicus Benth., California buttercup, Ranunculaceae; 3 seeds of Trifolium microcephalum Pursh, smallhead clover, Fabaceae; 2 seeds of Trifolium obtusiflorum Hook. f., clammy clover, Fabaceae; 1 nutlet of Galium sp., bedstraw, Rubiaceae; 1 seed of Luzula comosa E. Mey., Pacific woodrush, Juncaceae; 1 nutlet of Salvia columbariae Benth., chia, Lamiaceae; 1 floret of Bromus commutatus Schrad., hairy chess, Poaceae; 1 unknown achene of Asteraceae
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Quartz, Tuolumne County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Tuolumne; Quartz
Culture or time period:
Eastern Miwok
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Ranunculus californicus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1906
Context of use:
Used as food.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: Similar to, but different from 1-10197.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #19: Montecito Elementary School/Maxine Rockwell (October 23, 1962–October 25, 1962), S1963-1964 #35: Jefferson Elementary School/Barbara Barclay (October 29, 1963–November 5, 1963), S1966-1967 #67: Education (UC Berkeley)/Lily (February 2, 1967–February 27, 1967), S1967-1968 #149: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Albert B. Elsasser (June 24, 1968–June 24, 1968), 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)