‘Boil branches and drink the tea. Used especially by 
women during confinement. ”’ 
GRAMINEAE 
(Grass Family) 
Leptoloma cognatum ( Schu/tes) Chase in Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Wash. 19 (1906) 192. 
Panicum cognatum Schultes in Roemer & Schultes 
Syst. Veg. Mant. 2 (1824) 235. 
Panicum autumnale Bose ex Sprengel Syst. Veg. 1 
(1825) 820. 
Fall Witchgrass. 
Ba-du-sha-ka. 
‘Grind seed into meal. ”” 
Muhlenbergia pungens Jurber in Asa Gray in 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1868 (1868) 78. 
Purple Hairgrass. 
Wurg-si. 
‘*Used to make brooms. ” 
Muhlenbergia rigens ( Bentham) Hitchcock in 
Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 28 (1988) 4538. 
Epicampes rigens Bentham in Journ. Linn. Soe. Bot. 
19 (1881) 88. 
Deergrass. 
Kuath-kui. 
“*Grind seed and make bread of meal.” 
Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roemer and Schultes) 
Ricker ex Piper in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11 (1906) 
109. 
Stipa hymenoides Roemer and Schultes Syst. Veg. 2 
(1817) 339. 
Oryzopsis cuspidata Bentham ex Vasey in U.S. Dept. 
Agric. Spec. Rept. 68 (1888) 28. 
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