384 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CAL. 
thin, opposite-leaved plant with short, weak stems which rest prostrate 
upon the ground. The plant is much sought for in damp, half-shaded 
ravines throughout the district. The slender leafy vines are made into 
rolls and dried for use as a substitute for tea. Occasionally the tea is 
taken to relieve colic or ‘*to purify the blood.” J/d-stit’ is the Yokia 
name for the plant. 
Monardella sheltonii Torr. 
Bi-ki'-ki (Concow). —-A light green and very aromatic half-woody 
plant, 1 to 2 feet high, growing, commonly, in small clusters on dry, 
scantily wooded hillsides. It has opposite leaves and terminal circular 
clusters of small purple flowers. ‘To some small extent it is known as 
horsemint and pennyroyal. The aromatic sweet-scented leaves are 
collected preferably when the plant is in seed, and is much used both 
in the dry as well as in the fresh state as a substitute for tea, espe- 
cially by camping parties. The plants growing in Round Valley are 
considered less desirable than those growing in the Sacramento Valley, 
because they are more bitter. The tea is also valued in colic and as a 
blood purifier. The Yokian name for the plant is p0d-l@'-d. 
Pogogyne parviflora Benth. 
Aulk, the | prolonged (Yuki).—A dainty blue-flowered and very 
aromatic plant, which grows from 5 to 8 inches high and in Round 
Valley very thickly covers whole acres of overflow land in summer, 
The seed is gathered in surprisingly large quantities and is highly 
valued by the Yukis and Numlakis as a sweet aromatic ingredient of 
wheat and barley pinole. The taste of the leaf when taken before the 
flowers appear is much like that of some of the finer species of mint, 
being sharp and devoid of bitter or otherwise disagreeable properties. 
The Concows use the leaves as a substitute for tea, and, to some 
extent, as a counterirritant for pains in the stomach and bowels, the 
fresh leaves being placed in a bruised condition over the abdomen. 
Many of the Indians place the culled plants in or about their houses 
to drive away fleas. 
Salvia columbariae Benth. 
Cli'-po (Numlaki). A fine gravish green annual about a foot in 
height which bears a few deeply sculptured leaves of rather coarse 
texture, and one or two terminal clusters of blue flowers, which are 
often made more conspicuous by purplish leafy bracts. A remnant 
of 6 or T pounds of the minute gray seeds of this plant was found 
in the possession of a Numlaki squaw, who had gathered them in 
Tehema County, in the Sacramento Valley, the previous year and who 
had valued them highly for making soup, the seeds being very muci- 
laginous. The species was determined from seeds sent in to the Seed 
Laboratory of the Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, 
