Band 102. Nr. 10. XXVII. Jahrgang. II. Bd. Nr. 10. 



Botanisches Ceiitralblatt 



Referireiides Organ 



der 



Association luteriiatiouale des ßotaiiistes 



für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. 



Herausgegeben unter der Leitung 

 des Präsidenten: des Vice- Präsidenten: des Secretärs : 



Prof. Dr. R. v. Wettstein. Prof. Dr. Ch. FSahault, Dr. J. P. Lolsy. 



und der Redactions-Commissions-Mitglieder : 



Prof. Dr. Wm. Trelease und Dr. R. Pampanini. 



von zahlreichen Specialredacteuren in den verschiedenen Ländern. 

 Dr. J. P. LotSy, Chefredacteur. 



No. 36. 



Abonnement für das halbe Jahr 14 Mark 



durch alle Buchhandlungen und Postanstalten. 



1906. 



Alle für die Redaction bestimmten Sendungen sind zu richten an Herrn 

 Dr. J. P. LOTSY, Chefredacteur, Leiden (Holland), Rijn- en Schiekade 113. 



Harshberger, J. W., Phytogeographic Influences in theArts 

 and Industries of American Aborigines. (Bulletin 

 of the Geographica! Society of Philadelphia. Vol. IV. No. 3. 

 p. 25—41. April 1906.) 



A necessarily Condensed account of the plants used by the 

 North American Indians, in which an attempt is made to show the 

 influence of the typical flora of definite phytogeographic regions 

 upon the economy of the aboriginal tribes inhabiting them. The 

 plants are classed as follows: 1. Those which are used in the do- 

 mestic arts, 2. general Utility plants, 3. plants used as food, 4. plants 

 used in smoking and forage and for medicine. Especially mentioned 

 are: For the Eastern and Northern Forest Region: as used in the 

 domestic arts: paper birch (Betiila papyrifera) ; for general utility: 

 birch, linden, hickory (Hicoria ovata?), Holy gx2iss (Hierochloe (Sa- 

 vastana) odorata) ; for food : Sugar Maple (Acer saccharimim) , 

 hickory, wild rice (Zizania aquatica) and corn (Zea Mays). On the 

 Great Plains: in the domestic arts: birch, yellow pine and white 

 cedar (Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea) ; for general utility : lodge pole 

 pine, soapweed (Yucca angustifolici) ; for food : biscuit root (Ca- 

 massia esculenta) ; for smoking; wild tobacco, „larb" (Arctostaphylos) 

 and Kinnikinnick (Cornus stolonifera). On the Pacific Coast: for 

 general utility: a liehen (Evernia vulpina) and for food: the great 

 yellow spatter dock (Nupliar polysepcilum), the valley oak (Quercus 

 lobata) and the Pifion pine (P. Parryana). In the desert region, 

 for general utility: Miihlenbergia pungens, and for food and in- 

 toxicants: Anhalonium Lewinü, the Giant Cactus or Suwarro (^CV^ms 

 giganteiis), the bisanga, desert pigweed (Chenopodium cornutiim) 

 and corn. 



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