362 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CAL. 
ating. The herbage is eaten even when the plant is in flower, and 
the flowers and seed pods are likewise used for food. The seeds are 
not separated and made into pinole, but eaten raw, The Pomo name 
Is bdi-ho’. 
Trifolium wormskjoldii Lehm. 
Pe ni-pen-sil! and sd-ediv’ (Yuki). —These names were given to me 
for a robust succulent perennt al, a foot or so high, which has ovate 
leaflets three-fourths of an inch in length and numerous showy heads 
of purple and white flowers an inch or so long. It grows in tangled 
masses in damp valley land throughout the region, often occupying 
Fic, 74.—Clover eater. 
wide areas, to the almost total exclusion of other plants. Toward the 
last of June this is the only species that is gathered and caten in large 
quantity. figure 7 represents a woman leaving one of these large 
fields with a handkerchief full of the clover. The flowers are eaten 
as Well as the leaves. “Pwo Pomo names were given for the plant, 
be-td' so and dai so, 
Vicia americana Muh. 
od! jez-pal-mok” (Yuli). —A weak scrambling or climbing pea- 
like vine, with thin’ tendrilbearing leaves and small clusters of 
bright purple flowers. It is common in @rassy fields and in’ brush 
throughout the region. It makes very good fodder, and, when 
young, is often cooked and eaten for @reens by yarious tribes. ‘The 
