O-toos-pie root - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 77531 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.01 BETULACEAE Alnus sp | Entry Book Number | 21.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | O-toos-pie root | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | O-toos-pie root | Geography Description | Hudson's Bay, Canada | ||
| Uses | O-toos-pie rootUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 22/08/1983 | Donor Notes | Savage Dr, donated 1885 | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Note reads: ''The Indians take about 1 lb of the fresh root & boil in a quart of water & take about 1/3 pint at a dose, it is a purgative.'' Note from Jodrell Laboratory (1985) reads: W/ / /85PG, Matches ref. material of Alnus sp root. See medical Botan, y, Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, Wiley 1977, p. 273, p. 344. A. Rubra (red alder) W.N. America and A. rugosa (hazel alder) E. N. America. Barks are used by Indians to relieve indigestion as tonics and alternatives and in large doses as emetics.'' Vernacular name a, nd geography appear to match entry for green alder (Alnus viridis) in Marles et al (2000) (vernacular name given as atospiah in Cree). Card catalogue entry filed under 'Native Name Only - Roots.' | ||||