[PW] Re: Meaning of peca

[Franco, Adrienne]

I think it may be a legume (in the bean family).  
Peca is mentioned in USDA document at:
http:// plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/pubs/mtpmcrndaca7.pdf   

RELEASE NOTICE OF ANTELOPE GERMPLASM SLENDER WHITE PRAIRIECLOVER DALEA
CANDIDA TESTED CLASS OF NATURAL GERMPLASM by the USDA-NRCS BRIDGER PLANT
MATERIALS CENTER and the USDA-NRCS BISMARCK PLANT MATERIALS CENTER and
the MONTANA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION and the NORTH DAKOTA
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION and the WYOMING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION 

PECA is listed 3 times each in several tables in the appendix. 
For example, caption of appendix table 2 states 
"Appendix Table 2. Initial EvaluationPlanting. Seedling year performance
of 115 legume accessions at the Bridger PMC being evaluated for
reclamation of mined land. 1977."

Adrienne Franco / Iona College Libraries

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Folks,

Context: a document on Nicaraguan exports to the US in the 1930s. Source
text is a report by the US legation in Managua at the time. Author of
the report says that about a tenth of Nicaragua's exports to the US in
1934 consisted of "balsam, 'peca and hides".  Note the inverted comma
before peca, indicating that the word is a contraction.

Can anyone even guess what 'peca might be?

Thanks,
JB
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