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Un baton d'ont l'ecorce est fort raboteuse nommé Hercules's Club vient des isles de Bahama
Trans.: A stick with a very rugged bark called Hercules's Club that comes from the Bahama Islands

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

August 1765

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 1

Notes:

Hercules's Club is Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, also called pepperwood, or southern prickly ash, a spiny tree or shrub native to the southeastern United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere.

Du Simitière's Common Name:

Hercules's Club

Current Common Name:

Hercules's Club

Current Scientific Name

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis