Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Vegetaux de St. Domingue ramassées dans mon Second voyage," December 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 4
Notes:
According to Aîmé Audibert, Catalogue des végétaux de tous genres cultivés dans les jardins et Pépinières (Tarascon, 1817), p. 12, chataignier bâtard is Hippocastanum vulgare, the horse chestnut tree, but it is not known on Hispaniola.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Satanier [chataigner] batard
