VETCH FAMILY. 357 
for the beauty of its large, thin, kidney-shaped leaves and its abun. 
dance of thin, green and red seed pods. It is very common on brushy 
hillsides and the margins of valleys throughout the district. Both the 
bark and the wood from the young sprouts are gathered in the fall and 
used for the strands of some of the finer baskets. They are used either 
like thread or merely as woof to twine in and out in the so-called twin- 
ing baskets. The wood is also used for withes in making up the skele- 
tons of some baskets. Baskets made of redbud are very common and 
are often very pretty, but they are not so durable as those made from 
roots, especially those of different species of saw grass or Carex. 
Considerable ingenuity is exercised in the collection and manipulation 
of the material to produce a varied result. The branches are some- 
times cut down in winter or early spring so as to insure suitable mate- 
rial for use the next fall. The color of the bark is then slightly red, 
but this is often changed into a darker red by exposing it to smoke, 
and is blackened in various ways, as by soaking it in dirty water or in 
water and ashes, or in a decoction of oak bark to which scraps of old 
iron have been added. The bark is separated by first steaming the 
wood and then peeling. It is entirely separated when it is to be used 
as thread, but some of the wood is left adhering to it when the strands 
are to be used for twining. By so doing the strand appears white on 
one side of the basket and red on the other. The bark is said to be 
used by the old settlers as a substitute for quinine in chills and fever. 
The Little Lake name for the bush ts i7-/a and the Yokia name /é@-/a' 
i ki-la’. The Concow names given are dop and tal’h, 
VICIACEAE. Vetch Family. 
Lathyrus watsoni White. 
Jou'-lish fal (Yuki).—A stout, scrambling, pea-like vine which has 
light-green tendril-bearing leaves and showy clusters of brownish 
yellow flowers. It so completely covers wide areas of level land 
in Round Valley with its tangled growth that it is very difficult to 
walk through it. It makes excellent fodder for horses and cattle and is 
sometimes cut for hay. None of the Round Valley people admitted that 
they ate the plant, but a Yokia Indian informed me that at the present 
time it is frequently cooked and eaten for greens when only about 3 
inches high. The older plants are sometimes boiled and applied as a 
poultice to swollen joints. The Yokia name is /a/-hd-tzd’. 
Lupinus carnosulus Greene, 
Mal-chil-léz (Yuki).—A stout, succulent, annual lupine, 1 to 2 feet 
high, which has a loose verticillate raceme of showy deep-blue flowers 
in early spring and grows thickly together in large patches in damp 
ralley land throughout the region. The young roasted leaves were 
