Talk:Bodinier s.n., Beijing (1889)
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Evidentiary scope
The label records a male plant from the plain of Peking in July 1889 and says that hemp there is cult. et spont., cultivated and spontaneous, in hedges and at burial grounds. That describes how the plant occurred around the city. It does not say whether this plant came from a field or a hedge, or name a variety or a use. The note on the Paris duplicate calls the plant spontané (spontaneous), in the countryside of Peking, in hedges and at burial grounds. The two labels disagree on whether the plants were cultivated, so the accession is classified Other. No conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Read from Edinburgh's IIIF image (4096 pixels high), in two independent readings.
- Printed. HERBARIUM OF MONSEIGNEUR LÉVEILLÉ; stamp SUBLIMISÉ; Urticacées. The sheet carries the printed slip Herbarium of Monseigneur Léveillé and the stamp Sublimisé, which records that it was treated with corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride) against insects.
- Handwritten. Cannabis sativa, Linn. / P[é]kin – Juillet 1889. (Plante mâle) Cult. et spont. dans la plaine de P[é]kin, haies, sépultures / Em. Bodinier.
- The place name, written at the head of the note and again in it, was read as Pékin in one reading and as Péſhin in the other, both with doubt. The page takes Pékin, Peking. H.-L. Li's list of collectors (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 100, 1948) records Bodinier collecting in Peking and the regions north of it (the year reads 1880 in the scanned copy), and the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum cites a specimen from near Peking, E. Bodinier, 1889.
- Paris duplicate (P06781053), read from GBIF's cached copy of the holder's image (2,000 pixels wide). Note (handwritten): Plante mâle / Cueilli Juillet 1889 / Spontané dans la campagne de P[é]kin[?], haies, sépultures / Em. Bod[inier]. Museum label: HERBARIUM MUSEI PARISIENSIS / Urticaceae / Cannabinaceae / E.M. Bodinier – Chine. The place word has the same shape as on the Edinburgh note and is read the same way.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The Edinburgh note names the plain of Peking (la plaine de Pékin) and the Paris note its countryside (la campagne de Pékin): the open country round the city, an area with no fixed bounds and larger than a district. Neither note names a village, a distance or a direction from the city, so no single point can stand for the gathering, and the city's own point would claim more than the labels say. The province field takes Beijing. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the plain is an area, not a site.
Editorial treatment
Collector. The collector field keeps the label's Em. Bodinier. The Harvard botanist index gives him as the Rev. Émile Marie Bodinier (1842–1901); Li (1948) calls him a French missionary who later collected in Kweichow. The prose links Émile-Marie Bodinier.
Title and date. The sheet carries no collector's number, so the title takes s.n. and the present-day name of the place, Beijing. The label gives the month and year, July 1889, and that is stored.
Paris duplicate. The Paris sheet, P06781053, has the same collector, month, sex and place as the Edinburgh sheet, and the same words for where the plants grew (haies, sépultures), and is taken as a duplicate of the same gathering. It is cited in the article and shown in its gallery (CC BY 4.0).
Source discrepancies
- Edinburgh's catalogue gives no collector, place, date or country for the sheet (filed Inner China, Korea and Taiwan). Everything on this page beyond the plant's name comes from the labels.
- The Paris catalogue reads the note as Spontané dans la région de Nashuan and names the plant only Cannabis L.
- The Edinburgh note says Cult. et spont. (cultivated and spontaneous), the Paris note Spontané.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:29, 10 October 2026 (+07)