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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue transcribes the label's station as In agris prope Nagasaki et Kokura ins Kiu Siu (in fields near Nagasaki and Kokura, on the island of Kyushu). The label itself has not been seen. In agris (in fields) can mean the crop itself or a weed growing in a crop, and the transcription does not say which. It gives no other note on cultivation, so the accession is classified Other; no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Not read: the holder publishes no image of the sheet. The page reports the catalogue's fields as the Naturalis Biodiversity Center gives them (read 12 October 2026): unit L 0420298; collector Pierot, J; number 482; country Japan; locality In agris prope Nagasaki et Kokura ins Kiu Siu. Japonia.; basis Herbarium sheet; determination Cannabis sativa L. f. indica; province Kyushu; no date or coordinates.
Georeferencing
No point is given. The label names two places, Nagasaki and Kokura, about 157 km apart in a straight line and in two prefectures (OpenStreetMap: Nagasaki station, node 7550110002, to Kokura station, node 11724845346, 157.5 km; the Nagasaki city node 568515366 to the Kokura-Kita ward node 3056878047, 156.1 km). In agris prope (in fields near) both places does not say near which, or where between them, the plant grew. Kokura, an old castle town, became a city in 1900 and was merged into Kitakyushu in 1963 (English Wikipedia).
Editorial treatment
Catalogue only. The accession is made from the holder's catalogue alone, with no image; every fact on the page is the catalogue's, and the label may hold more than the catalogue transcribes.
Title. Jacques Pierot lived from 1812 to 1841 (Harvard Index of Botanists; Wikidata), so a sheet in his name is no later than 1841, the limit the title gives. The Japanese Wikipedia says that he took his medical degree at Leiden in 1839 and left for Nagasaki in September 1840, but was shipwrecked on the way, turned back to Macao, and afterwards fell ill and died. No source read places him in Japan. The same article reports that the Japanese plant specimens under Pierot's name in the Siebold collection are said to have been bought from the gatherings of Heinrich Bürger, Siebold's assistant in Japan. No source read says whether that applies to this sheet; the page names Pierot, as the catalogue does.
Collector. The collector field takes J. Pierot, the catalogue's Pierot, J in initials form, and the number field the catalogue's 482; the prose links his biography.
Place. The locality field gives the transcription's place in English, Fields near Nagasaki and Kokura, Kyushu. The province field is empty: the two places lie in two prefectures, and the label favours neither.
Source discrepancies
- Naturalis determines the sheet as Cannabis sativa L. f. indica; GBIF gives var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer. The scientific name field follows the holder.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 02:50, 13 October 2026 (+07)