1899] Fernald, — Plant-names of the Madawaska Acadians 167 
for whom we had made room, that all my efforts to gain from him any 
more plant-names were utterly ignored. 
The Madawaska names for many plants were interesting to me, and 
it is possible that in them others may also find something of interest. 
Many of them are identical with the French names for the same or 
related European plants, while others are apparent corruptions of the 
European names. Still other names of plants well-known in France 
are unique, and rarely they show distinct English or Algonkian 
influences. The following list is very short, but it will serve to call 
attention to an attractive study incident to a summer's collecting-trip ; 
and it is hoped that it will be the nucleus about which further notes 
may be gathered. The spelling of the Madawaska names is kept as it 
was given by my informant, who was each time requested to spell the 
name, which would otherwise have been difficult to make out. 
MADAWASKA. FRANCE. 
(Same or similar plant.) 
Equisetum. Le çail renard. Préle. 
(The Madawaska Acadians rarely give 
the hard sounds of Z and 7. Instead they 
give the sound of or s. This name, 
then, is partly of English origin: le tail 
renard.) 
Smilacina racemosa. Pied coq. 
Veratrum viride. Labois, 
(An evident corruption of the French 
and English /e//edore.) 
Populus balsamifera. Purnals. Peuplier de la Virginie. 
Salix. Soild. Saule. 
Betula. Boulon. Bouleau. 
Corylus. Courts. Coudrier. 
Ranunculus acris. Boucet jaune. Bouton d’or. 
(Bouget, corruption of douguet. See 
Equisetum.) 
Pyrus americana 
and P. sambucifolia. Moccoet. Sorbier des oiseaux. 
(Pronounced Mús-koo. In Quebec, 
according to Provancher, called Maskou. 
The Abnaki word for dark is Mosku, the 
Micmac, Masku. The Algonkian name 
may readily have been adopted by the 
Madawaska French forthe Mountain Ash, 
whose bark is often used by them in 
tanning.) 
