382 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CAL. 
Valley in the winter of 1897-98 as a cure for grippe, that disease hay- 
ing been especially prevalent at thai time. It is generally valued as a 
blood purifier, a cure for rheumatism, consumption, and catarrh, As 
a wash it is used considerably in fevers and for catarrh and consump- 
tion. It is also smoked and chewed like tobacco. For the first two 
diseases the tea is taken freely as a drink for several days. Some 
drink it either alone or mixed with horehound in place of ‘* store tea,’ 
but this is not at all general. Its employment as.a substitute for 
tobacco is not uncommon. When rolled, up into wads and dried in 
the shade the leaves are considered most valuable for chewing. The 
taste is peculiar, being rather disagreeably resinous and bitter at first. 
This taste soon disappears and gives place to a sweet and cooling sen- 
sation, which is especially noticeable when one ceases to chew for a 
minute or drinks a glass of water. As one Indian expressed it, ‘It 
makes one taste kind of sweety inside.” The bitter taste of the 
extract is obviated by boiling the leaves with sugar. 
Sa'-teh (the t explosive) (sticky brush) is the Little Lake name of 
the plant and wé-sd-qgot’-0 is the Concow name, 
BORAGINACEAE. Borage Family. 
Amsinckia lycopsoides Lehm. 
A rough, hairy annual, with small, bright, orange-colored flowers, 
the buds of which are arranged in a spiral coil at the extremity of the 
flowering stem. The fresh, juicy shoots were formerly used for food. 
No specimens were obtained of the plant, but the species is probably 
as given, 
Cynoglossum grande Doug. 
Shu'-dl (Yuki). —The pretty blue-flowered plant which sends up 
its broad tongue-like leaves and flowering stalks early in February, 
It is generally known as hound’s tongue and blue buttons, but the 
Indians call it either ** coyote” or ‘dog ear.” In the early spring it 
is & conspicuous plant in open hillside forests. 
The grated roots are used by the Concows to draw out the inflam- 
mation from burns and sealds, and by the Potter Valley Indians to 
relieve stomach ache, The root is also asserted to be of value in ven- 
ereal diseases. The Yukis claim that the ecoked roots are good to eat. 
De-wish'-d-ind is the Potter Valley and also the Little Lake name 
for the plant. 
Plagiobothrys campestris (Greene. 
Kochh (Yuki).—A pretty, white-flowered plant, which grows so pro- 
fusely in Round Valley that whole acres of ground are made white 
with its delicately scented forget-me-not-like flowers. On account of 
its abundance and the similarity in the appearance of large masses to a 
light fall of snow, the Indian children call the plant snowdrops. The 
coloring matter at the base of the young leaves is used by women and 
