Ozone fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49205 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 107.00 ASCLEPIADACEAE Asclepias incarnata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Ozone fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United States | TDWG Region | United States | ||
| Parts Held | Ozone fibre | Geography Description | Michigan, Northern America, Northeastern USA, Saginaw Valley | ||
| Uses | Ozone fibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dr LH Dewey, US Dept Agric | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 08/07/1929 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Collector No | ||||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Prepared in 1914 by Sidney Smith Boyce, from plants growing in Saginaw Valley. Decorticated but not degummed. Another sample in envelope degummed by Boyce's secret process supposed to be soap and water. Opuscular source: See letters in As, clepiadaceae cover. Extract of letter to Director. From Dewey at US Dept of Agric, Bureau of Plant Industry, June 14. 1929. I am forwarding to you a sample of fibre of the swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, which Mr Boyce called ozone fibre, and also a, small sample of the so called Indian Hemp Apreynum cannabinum. The fibre A. incarnata, did not spin well in the spinning machinery now used. The fibres did not cling together as do those of cotton hemp flax, and after a few unsuccessful trials the spin, ners lost interest. | ||||