Seeds - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 67367 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 11.00 CRUCIFERAE Lepidium sativum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Seeds | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Seeds | Geography Description | Sahara | ||
| Uses | SeedsUse: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Henry Dr TA | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 13/04/1923 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Rodd | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Pounded and given with onions and tobacco in water to camels for the 'disease of the blood'. Pounded and drunk with water to patient whose 'blood is sick? '. I have never seen it administered to people so I cannot tell the nature of the com, plaint. Seed of a grass known in Tamashegr as 'Araruf' in Arabic 'Gaggi' ? Said to be used by the Tuaregs of the Sahara. Collected by Mr Rodd. Forwarded to Kew for determination by Dr T A Henry, Welcome Chem Research Lab. King Street London. E.C.1 See Let, ter Book XV p.73. | ||||