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Evidentiary scope
The label gives the county, a place name written where the habitat belongs, the date and the collector. It names no habitat, use or note on cultivation. The accession is classified Other and no conservation priority is assigned.
Label reading
Read twice, independently, from the Chinese Virtual Herbarium's image of the sheet (WUK0072840, 990 × 1,440 pixels).
- Label (printed Herbarium of the Forestry Department of the Northwestern Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, Sian, China / 西北農林專科學校植物標本, by hand): 號數 Number 2369 / 科名 Family Moraceae 桑科 / 屬類 Genus & Species Cannabis sativa L. / 產地 Locality Hsien Yang 咸陽 / 境地 Habitat Chow Kung Ling / 採集期 Date Sept. 4, 1934 / 採集人 Collector Fenzel / 附註 Remarks blank. Red oval stamp 陝西省農業改進所 on the label; red 0327 above it.
- Tag tied to the stem: 2369, written upside down.
- Determination slip: Cannabis sativa L. / Determinavit and a signature ending Pai.
- Stamps: the stamped sheet number; 标本已录 (specimen recorded); the round stamp of the herbarium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Northwest Institute of Biology and Soil (中国科学院 西北生物土壤研究所 植物标本室).
The two readings agree on the label and the tag. They differ on the slip's initials, read once as G. G. (or C. C.) and once as C. G., each letter uncertain.
Georeferencing
Hsien Yang (咸陽) is Xianyang, Shaanxi, whose county seat has stood since 1371 on the site of today's Qindu District (Chinese Wikipedia). The point 34.34, 108.71 is Wikidata's point for Qindu District (Q1201078); SRTM gives 396 m there, and the label gives no altitude. The label's Chow Kung Ling was not found as a place in OpenStreetMap, Wikidata or Chinese Wikipedia. Read as 周公陵, the tomb of the Duke of Zhou, it would lie on the Bi plain north of Xianyang: the Tang geography Kuodizhi, quoted in Chinese Wikipedia, puts the Duke's tomb 13 li north of the city, and the Zhou tombs at Zhouling (周陵, Wikidata Q10921119), which modern sources attribute to the Zhou kings Wen, Cheng and Kang, lie about 8 km north of the point. The reading is not confirmed, so the point stays on the county town, and the uncertainty takes in the Zhouling tombs. It is not the place the plant was gathered. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 10 km.
Editorial treatment
Collector. The collector field keeps the label's Fenzel. He is taken to be Gottlieb Fenzel (1896–1936), a German forester: after teaching forestry at Sun Yat-sen University from 1927, he returned to China in 1932 (Liu Liang, Journal of Beijing Forestry University, 2014) or in the summer of 1933 (Chinese Wikipedia) to teach at the Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College (國立西北農林專科學校), and he died in Xi'an on 14 August 1936 (Chinese Wikipedia). The Harvard botanist index lists a G. Fenzel collecting in Shensi and Kansu in 1934. The label is printed for that college's forestry department, but no source read names him as the collector of this number. The prose links Gottlieb Fenzel.
Locality. The locality field takes the label's Hsien Yang and 咸陽 and the name written on its habitat line, Chow Kung Ling, which is a place name, not a habitat.
Province. The label names no province; the province field takes Shaanxi, the province of Xianyang and of the stamp on the label.
Determination. The slip's initials were not read with confidence, and the identified-by field is left empty.
Image. The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its images under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, so the page cites each sheet's image and shows none.
Source discrepancies
- The Chinese Virtual Herbarium lists the Yangling sheet twice, under two record numbers with the same image (WUK0072840 also as record be210c29); the page cites the record that carries the sheet's barcode.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 01:45, 15 October 2026 (+07)