108 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Chenopodium album, lamb’s quarters. 
The tender tips of this plant may be boiled like spinach, which 
it closely resembles. This was much used by the Indians. 
Dentaria laciniata, pepper-root. 
Ellisia Nycetelea, nycetelea. 
Erigenia dbulbosa, harbinger-of-spring. 
Erysimum asperum, western wall-flower. 
Erythronium albidum, white adder’s tongue. 
Hybanthus concolor, green violet. 
The above plants were used as potherbs. 
Lactuca canadensis, wild lettuce. 
Lactuca floridana, wild lettuce. 
Lactuca hirsuta, wild lettuce. 
Lactuca integrifolia, wild lettuce. 
Lactuca ludoviciana, wild lettuce. 
Lactuca spicata, wild lettuce. 
Lactuca villosa, wild lettuce. 
Wild lettuce is used both as a potherb and salad. 
Lepidium apetalum, pepper-grass. 
Lepidium campestre, field cress. 
Lepidium virginicum, wild pepper-grass. 
Mertensia virginica, blue-bell. 
Potherb. 
Ovalis corniculata, yellow wood-sorrel. 
Oxralis violacea, violet wood-sorrel. 
Used for salad, and like rhubarb for pies. 
Phragmites communis, reed grass. 
Early in the season the stems are righ in starchy and sugary 
matter, and if dried in the sun, ground, and the fine cellular tis- 
sues sifted out and softened with water, they may be made into 
cakes, which are set near the fire to roast. When they become 
brown they are eaten like taffy. The stem exudes a sugary sub- 
stance, which was eaten by the Indians, 
Phytolacca decandra, pokeroot. 
The seeds and root of this plant are poisonous. Very small 
quantities of the root will cause vomiting, purging, convulsions, 
and death. Such a plant should therefore be eaten with extreme 
