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these plants. Argemone platyceras. Link and Otto, was just be- 

 ginning to show its flowers, and was seen in many counties ; Cal- 

 lirrhoe ala^oides. Gray, C. involncrata, Gray, common in many 

 counties; also Malvastrum coccineum, Gray, Linmn rigidiim, 

 Pursh, and L. sulcatum, Ridd. A few specimens of Talimim 

 calycinum, Engelm., were collected in Pratt and Edwards Coun- 

 ties, south of the Arkansas River. Baptisia atistralis, R. Br., 

 Gaura coccinea, Nutt., CEnothera serrulata, Nutt., and Oxytropis 

 Lambertiy Pursh, were seen in many counties; Rosa Arkansana, 

 Porter, in several counties. Several other species of CEnothej'a 

 were collected. Actinella scaposa, Nutt., and Erigeron puniilus, 

 Nutt, were found in Greeley County, the latter not reported from 

 Kansas before, so far as I know. Pyrrhopappus scaposns, DC, 



was seen in 



lifli 



Mimuhis glabratus^ HBK., var. Jamesii, Gray, Pentstemon acu- 

 viinatuSy Dough, and another species which has not yet been 

 worked out. 



J. H. Oyster. 



Onondaga Plant Names. 



I have obtained a good many Onondaga names of plants, 

 some of which are now only names, while others have signifi- 

 cance. For many the Indians, hke the mass of our own people, 

 have no names. They adopt some English names and change 

 others, as ''Ikomatos'' for tomatoes. Some are rather pretty and 

 quite appropriate, as *' Indian cradle " for Jack-in-the-pulpit. The 

 cradle on which the baby is placed is a flat board with a foot-rest 

 at one end and a bow at the other. On this the baby is bound, 

 and the cradle is hung up or carried by the bow. From the 

 upper end a scarf is frequently drawn over the bow to shield the 

 face, like the nodding spathe of Jack-in-the-pulpit, The plan- 

 tain is ''the plant that covers the road." Lettuce is ** the raw 

 leaf" CaltJia paliistris is Ka-^iah-wah-hawks, ''It opens the 

 swamps." Sanguinaria is Da-weJune-quen-chuks^ " It breaks 

 blood." The yellow lady's slipper is Kwe-ko-Jieah-o-tah-qtid'y 

 " The whippoorwill shoe." Commercial ginseng is Da-kien- 

 too-keh, "The forked plant." Podophyllum is 0-na-when-stahy 

 "Soft fruit" Snake-root is Oh-sqiien-e-tah, but of this I got no 



meaning. 



W. M. Beauchamp. 



