Talk:Durando s.n., Sig (1850)
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Evidentiary scope
The locality states cultivation: Cultivé à l'Union agricole du Sig. That is stronger evidence than a bare occurrence, because it places the plant in a grower's hands. The label adds Originaire de l'Orient, a claim that the stock came from the East, which names no country, supplier or date. It does not say who grew the plant, why, on what scale or to what end. It names no variety and no local name. The accession is classified Other: cultivation at an agricultural settlement establishes a crop, not a landrace. No conservation priority is assigned.
The Union agricole du Sig was a colonial agricultural settlement in the Sig plain. The article does not describe it, because nothing in the sources consulted describes it and an account of the settlement drawn from general reading would go beyond what this sheet supports. It is worth a source hunt.
Label reading
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- Field label (blue paper, manuscript, one hand): Cannabis sativa L. / Originaire de l'Orient. / Cultivé à l'Union agricole du Sig, / été 1850. / signature, read Durando.
- Folded paper above it (manuscript): Été 1850.
- Museum label. Printed HERBARIUM MUSEI PARISIENSIS; no manuscript.
- Barcode. Herbier Muséum Paris P06886052.
The label carries no variety name, habitat note, number or determination slip. Originaire de l'Orient is the one line of it the catalogue leaves out for this sheet; the catalogue carries the same words in the event note of the Barat sheet.
Georeferencing
The label names the Union agricole du Sig, the Fourierist colony founded at the end of 1845 at Saint-Denis-du-Sig, now Sig, in Mascara Province, east of Oran. French Wikipedia (Sig (Mascara)) places the Union du Sig at the town's edge on the Mascara side, below the djebel Bou Sella; the establishment itself is not mapped in OpenStreetMap. The point 35.53, −0.19 is the town of Sig, OpenStreetMap node 424749543. The uncertainty takes in the whole commune of Sig (relation 6668191, about 114 km²), whose farthest edge is 10.2 km from the point, with 1 km for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering at Sig, not at the establishment. The catalogue gives no altitude or habitat, so no elevation is asserted. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the locality names an establishment and not a point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 11 km.
Editorial treatment
The label dates the gathering to été 1850, the summer. The catalogue holds that as the span 21 June to 22 September 1850. The span encodes the season the label names. It is neither a range of collecting days nor the publisher's year-only encoding: compare Steinheil s.n., Bône (1834) and Barat s.n., Sig (1850), which are both held as 1 January to 31 December of their year. The infobox stores the year, because the date field takes a single value and the span is given in the article.
The collector field takes Durando alone, as the label's signature and the catalogue give it. The International Plant Names Index records Gaetano Leone Durando, 1811 to 1892, and the title and collector field could take G. Durando instead. They do not, because neither the label nor the catalogue supplies an initial and the expansion is an identification and not a transcription.
Barat s.n., Sig (1850) is a second sheet from the same establishment in the same year. Its label is in the same hand as this one and carries the same signature. The name Barat on it is a stamp, Herbier - BARAT, on the museum's label, which names the herbarium the sheet came from. The two labels differ in wording: that one adds Le chanvre and près Oran and gives the year alone; this one adds agricole and the season. Neither carries a number, so the sheets do not show whether they come from one gathering or two. They are kept as separate accessions.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 08:11, 18 September 2026 (+07)