894 PLANTS USED BY INDIANS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY, CAL. 
bottoms throughout the region, being more abundant southward. The 
leaves are used by the Sanel Indians south of Ukiah as a substitute for 
tea. 
Grindelia sp. 
Shé-nd'-tik (Pomo).—A perennial species of rosinweed 2 to 3 feet 
high which has alternate lance-shaped, half woody leaves with entire 
margins, and 3 or + terminal resinous heads of yellow flowers about 
an inch in diameter. The leaves have a rather agreeable taste, very 
much like that of ordinary store tea, hut perhaps a little more bitter. 
The plant was found only in one locality, on the southern rim of Round 
Valley. A decoction of the whole plant is valued as a blood purifier, 
to open the bowels, and to cure cold and colic, especially in children. 
The leaves are chewed in the fresh state, and are also used as a substi- 
tute for tea 
Helenium puberulum DC. 
Ka-pa@’ sho'-pa (Pomo). —A dark-green herbaceous perennial 2 to 4 
feet high. The broad, lanceolate, sessile leaves at the base of the 
plant are + to 6 inches long, while the upper measure only | to 2 
inches. Both are sessile, and their margins are continuous with the 
stem for several inches. The reddish brown flower clusters are a half 
inch in diameter, and are borne singly in smooth spherical clusters at 
the ends of the long, slender branches near the top of the plant. It 
is of rather frequent occurrence along shady streams throughout the 
county, Specimens were shown only to the Indians near Ukiah. 
The flower heads are extremely acrid and bitter, the taste being 
compared by one Indian to that of ** Wizard Oil.” He remarked at 
the same time that they were hot as red pepper, and stronger than 
whisky. As a medicine for a certain venereal complaint it is 
claimed to be almost a specific. The heads and also the leaves are 
either eaten raw or taken as a decoction. Three plants are boiled in 
a gallon of water, and three tablespoonfuls of this extract are taken 
before each meal for two or three days or until a cure is effected. 
The Yokia name of the plant /ot-/a-ya'-chdé means ** beaver flower, 
and was probably applied on account of the fancied resemblance of 
the winged stems to a beaver’s tail. 
Hemizonia luzulaefolia DC. 
Ma-ko' (Pomo).—The commonest and most prolific representative 
of the various plants, which, on account of their disagreeable exuda- 
tion, are known as ‘‘tarweeds.” It is a wide-branching, herbaceous 
plant, 8 to 20 inches high, with linear, floccose-woolly and viscid, 
glandular leaves and showy white flowers. It often covers wide areas 
of dry open ground, and may be found in bloom at any time from 
April until November. The plant bears a great abundance of ovate, 
obscurely triangular seeds, about ¢ of an inch in length, which consti- 
