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Page scope

NPG-CHN-HEB-0319250001 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 accession rests on two sources: the department's printed inventory entry for plant introduction 63916 (Inventory No. 83 (1927), p. 24) and the entry for PI 63916 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory gives the collector, his number, the date and the city, and nothing on the plants. GRIN-Global states that the lot "no longer exists and can not be requested", so the page gives the lot as gone. No conservation priority is assigned.

Identifier

The identifier NPG-CHN-HEB-0319250001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence. The department's own number for the lot is PI 63916.

NPG stands for the National Plant Germplasm System of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose database, GRIN-Global, carries the department's plant introductions.
CHN is the ISO code for China.
HEB stands for Hebei.
Month 03: March, the month the seed was gathered.
Year 1925 is the year the seed was gathered.
0001 is the lot's place, in plant-introduction order, among the holder's lots from the same country, province, month and year.

Classification

The entry gives a city and a date and nothing about the crop or who grew it, so the accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

The inventory heads the consignment "Seeds obtained by P. H. Dorsett", and GRIN-Global lists him as collector, so he is given as collector.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names Paotingfu, today's Baoding, and nothing finer. The point 38.86, 115.49 is the point OpenStreetMap gives for the city of Baoding (relation 3442995), a locality georeference for the place the source names, not a collection point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 8 km, the radius of the city's built-up core.

Dates

The collection date, 10 March 1925, is the date of Dorsett's number as both sources give it. The department received the consignment on 5 May 1925, the lot's received date.