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Johnston 508 (1901) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

The handwritten label gives the place and date as Mooi River, Natal, 13.2.01. H. H. J. and marks the plant male. It adds Same as no 877., which ties the sheet to Johnston 877, the female plant of the pair, gathered thirteen months later. The two are separate accessions. The label names no habitat, use or note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

The label reads Mooi River, Natal. Mooi River is both a town and the river it stands on; the infobox takes it as the town, and so does this point. The point -29.21, 29.99 is the town, OpenStreetMap node 262710336 (Mooirivier). The 2011 census gives the town 13.76 km² (English Wikipedia, Mooi River (town)), a circle about 2.1 km in radius, and 1 km is added for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering at the town, not on the river's banks elsewhere. An earlier version of this note gave no point because no catalogue or label gives a coordinate. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 4 km.

Editorial treatment

Edinburgh's catalogue records no collector, number, date or country for this sheet. It files it under the region Southern Africa and nothing more. Every value this accession carries is transcribed from the digitised sheet, as it stood in September 2026, and the transcription is what the accession rests on.

The date is read as 13 February 1901 from the label's 13.2.01.

The collector is given on the sheet as the stamp COL. H. H. JOHNSTON and the initials H. H. J.

Source discrepancies

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh publishes two licences for this image. Its IIIF manifest states CC BY-SA 2.5 with attribution required; the Darwin Core record and GBIF's media block state CC0. The file page follows the manifest, which is the herbarium's own statement about the image rather than about the data, as the wiki's earlier Edinburgh file pages do.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:25, 24 September 2026 (+07)