886 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CAL. 
to it. The first plants grown in Round Valley were imported in Tssd 
by a white man who made a salve with the leaves which was used for 
euring the sores on horses caused by the friction of the harness, 
There appears to be little danger of the plant spreading so as to 
become an objectionable weed, because the climatic and other condi- 
tions are unfavorable. 
Nicotiana bigelovii Watson. 
Sika! (Yokia). A very viscid and ill-smelling species of tobacco 
(fig. 77) which is native to California and grows quite commonly along 
the dry beds of streams near Ukiah. The leaves. the larger of which 
