106 PLANTS USED BY THE KLAMATH INDIANS. 



Tetradymia canescens DC. 



Kat-kat'-sam. — A composite yellow-flowered shrub, I to 2 feet in 

 height, with silvery white, oblanceolate leaves, blooming in July and 

 August. This is often eaten by horses, but otherwise it is a plant of 

 no importance to the Indians. 



Wyethia mollis (Jray. 



Sta'-mak. — A plant very similar to Balsamorrhiza, but the canesceut 

 leaves not cordate at the base. It is abundant in the yellow-pine forests. 

 The roots of a plant, which from the description is probably this, are 

 mashed and used as a poultice for swellings. 



Balsamorrhiza sagittata ( Pursl) ) Nntt. 



JJ}ii. — A stout low plant, about .'!(> to 50 cm. (approximately J to 1£ 

 feet) high, with yellow flower heads similar to a small sunflower, and 

 large, grayish, arrow-shaped leaves often ,'50 cm. long, the whole plant 

 resembling the introduced elecampane. Inula hclenium L.. of our Eastern 

 pasture lands. Horses have a marked fondness for these leaves and 

 are continally cropping them while under the saddle. The seeds of this 

 plant and those of the similar B. deltoid ea Xntt., which the Indians do 

 not distinguish from it, are gathered, roasted, and ground as a farina- 

 ceous food. IJoth plants are abundant on the reservation in the yellow 

 pine forests. 



Chondrophora nauseosa ( Pursh » Mritlnn. 



WaV-wiil. — One of the plains shrubs known as rabbit brush. A 

 silvery-white variety of this species about 4 feet high, with narrowly 

 linear leaves, and bearing yellow composite flowers in September, is 

 common in the margins of the yellow-pine forests about the agency. 

 Its mashed herbage, aromatic and resinous, is used to raise blisters. 



Chrysothamnus bloomeri (Gray) Greene, 



WW -mi. — A yellow-flowered composite shrub, 1 to 3 feet high, with 

 slender, bright green foliage. A poultice of the mashed leaves and 

 flowers is used to draw blisters. The name appears to be applied also 

 to other related shrubs containing aromatic-resinous principles, and 

 used in a similar manner. 



Madia glomerata Hook. 



Qo'-e-tchU. — A glutinous, yellow-flowered, composite annual plant, 

 one of the several species called "tarweed." The seeds are often used 

 for food. 



