852 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CAL, 
erect cream-colored flowers an inch or so in diameter. It is common 
in valleys and on grassy hillsides. The green leaves are said to be 
eaten for greens, but the use is probably rather restricted. 
BRASSICACEAE. Mustard Family. 
Brassica campestris |. 
The common yellow mustard is an introduced annual for which there 
is no Indian name. It is one of the worst weeds in grain fields. 
Indians are frequently employed to weed it out by hand pulling. The 
extensive use of the young leaves for greens by the early settlers has 
been imitated by the natives. 
Bursa bursa-pastoris (L.) Britton. 
The common shepherd’s purse, a slender introduced annual, the seed 
of which is used to a slight extent for pinole. 
Roripa nasturtium (L.) Rusby. 
The common water cress, an aquatic annual, which was introduced 
by the early settlers, and has now become quite abundant in Round 
Valley. The leaves are eaten as a relish. 
Thysanocarpus elegans Fisch. & Mey. 
Ol-lo'-bich (Yuki). —A slender annual, a foot or so in height, with a 
long raceme of inconspicuous white flowers, which develop into peculiar 
lace-fringed, lens-shaped seed pods a quarter of an inch in diameter, 
The plant grows on low hillsides and is known as *‘lace-pod.” The 
slightly pungent seeds are used in pinole mixtures and a decoction of 
the whole plant is sometimes used to relieve stomach ache. The Wai- 
laki name, 64-0"-zhe-ld’-dit, refers to the faint suggestion which the 
appearance of the fruit has to a dainty Indian basket. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. Saxifrage Family. 
Philadelphus gordonianus Lindl. 
Hlan'-li (Yuki). -A species of syringa or mock orange, which is 
commonly called arrow wood in Round Valley. It is a magnificent 
shrub, 6 to 12 feet high, with opposite ovate leaves and clusters of large 
orange-like flowers. It is not found near Ukiah, but is very common 
in canyons and damp bushy meadows in Round Valley and is frequently 
seen in cultivation throughout California and elsewhere. The older, 
less pithy wood was formerly used to make bows, and the younger, 
very pithy shoots were, on account of their straightness and their light 
weight, especially prized for arrows by the Yukis and Wailakis. 
Several old-time arrows were observed which were tipped with a 
solid, sharpened cylinder of oak, mountain mahogany, or dogwood, 
