326 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CGAL. 
hyacinth-like flowers. It is an exceedingly common plant on rocky 
hillsides throughout the county and is often found as a weed in gar- 
dens. The bulbs are eaten raw, but are sweeter when cooked in ashes. 
Erythronium giganteum Lindl. 
No Indian name was obtained for this magnificent yellow “ fawn 
lily,” or dogtooth violet. It has a narrow corm 1 to 2 inches long, 
and is rather abundant in moist places in) woods throughout. the 
country. It is eaten, but not in large quantity. The Wailakis use the 
crushed corm as a poultice for boils and have a peculiar superstition 
that if they wash themselves with a decoction of it they can stop a 
rattlesnake from having dreams, which, they say. make them more 
irritable and dangerous. 
Fritillaria mutica, Lindl. 
Bo te (Little Lake). The beautiful brown and green spotted lily 
which grows commonly in damp woods throughout the region. — It has 
a depressed bulb with rice-like bulblets on top, a stout, succulent stem 
with whorled leaves, and a beautiful raceme of large brown and green 
spotted bell-shaped flowers. Although classed with the potatoes, the 
bulb is apparently not used for food. The Wailakis call the plant 
ja-jrn'-j and have a superstition that if the roots are dug up the 
acorns will drop off the oaks, 
Hesperoscordum lacteum (Lindl.) Greene. 
Ho bé (Yokia).-The white brodiaea which has radical grass-like 
leaves, and capitate clusters of white hyacinth-like flowers. It @rows 
abundantly in rich valley land throughout the country. The bulbs 
are eaten either raw or cooked, 
Hookera coronaria Salish. 
Da-cal’ bé (Little Lake).—An apparently leafless plant, about a 
foot high, which has a single flower stock witha terminal umbel of blue 
funnel-shaped flowers and is commonly known as the ‘harvest: bro- 
diaea.” The radical leaves usually dry up before the flowers appear 
in May or June. It is exceedingly common in grain fields and on 
dry, grassy hillsides throughout the region. The brown-coated corm 
is about 7 of an inch in diameter and is ereatly relished by sheep as 
wellas by the Indians. It is sweet after roasting fora day. The Yuki 
name is dut-pot'" 
Quamasia leichtlinii (Baker) Coville. 
Hoi-dnt’ (Yuki). --A species of camas, 2 to + feet. tall, which grows 
in very great abundance in the rich, damp meadows of Round Valley 
and northward, but which is practically unknown to the Indians about 
Ukiah. The plant has an onion-like bulb about an inch in diameter, 
