Seeds From Sitka, Alaska

Item number ET17127-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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3149 WRONG NUMBER. 3 SEEDS FROM SITKA, ALASKA FROM MRS. COHEN; NOTE THAT THEY COULD BE DESTROYED 1905. Label from original container with artifacts: "3149 Sitka, Alaska, June 1880, Mrs. Cohen. Used as food by the Indians. They are said by Mrs. C. to taste like sweet potatoes when boiled. Parasitic plant. - Dr. Hough." Museum notes with artifacts include a brief one from a Dr. Rose to W.F. Wight asking if the seeds should be kept, and Wight's note of reply of Feb. 9, 1905 identifying the specimens as Boschniakia rossica Cham. + Schlecht. [Northern Groundcone, parasitic on the roots of trees] and noting that they are "hardly worth keeping as we have a number of good ones."