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Heracleum lanatum Michx. 
Mun'-shék (Yuki).—The most robust umbelliferous plant of the 
region, which has compound leaves with leaflets 4 to 10 inches broad 
and flower clusters often 10 inches in diameter. It grows 3 to 8 feet 
high in damp ground among the brush, in valleys or on northern hill- 
sides, and is well known as the ‘*cow parsnip.” The tender leaf and 
flower stalks are sweet and very agreeably aromatic and are, therefore, 
much sought after for green food in spring and early summer before 
the flowers have expanded. In eating these, however, the outer skin 
is rejected. Mr. George Grist who has had an extended experience 
with the Indians of Round Valley, and who in 1892 was the Govern- 
ment farmer for the reservation, informed me that he had seen the 
hollow basal portion of the plant used as a substitute for salt. It was 
dried in short cylinders and eaten either in the dry state with other 
food or placed in the frying pan and cooked into the substance to be 
eaten, A strong decoction of the roots is said to have been used by 
the earlier Spaniards as a lotion for rheumatism. The Yokia name for 
the plant is 4é-rd-¢/¢’, and the Concow is chou'-meé-0. 
Lomatium utriculatum (Nutt). Coult. & Rose. 
Ni'-é and kin-git-go'-séi (given as Yuki).—A slender, yellow-flow- 
ered plant a foot or so in height, which has very finely dissected 
leaves and grows in considerable profusion near the schoolhouse in 
Round Valley, both on the level land and on brushy hillsides. It is also 
‘alled ‘‘clover” or **fir clover” by the Indians, who eat the young 
leaves raw in May or June when they are still crisp. The Pomo and 
Yokia name for the plant is s/d-40'. 
Sanicula menziesii Hlook. & Arn. 
Sé-a-didl'-a (Wailaki).—A yellow-flowered plant 1 to 24 feet high, 
which has bristly toothed, palmately lobed leaves and small globu- 
lar fruit well armed with weak, barbed bristles. It grows in shady 
places everywhere throughout the district, being a rather disagree- 
able weed on account of the seed catching in the clothing. The 
Indian name refers to the fact that the seeds often catch in the hair 
when one lies down in the shade. The root is supposed to bring good 
luck in gambling if chewed and rubbed on the body. The seed has a 
taste very much like that of angelica, but is perhaps more bitter. No 
medicinal use of the plant was learned. 
