Blitum Nuttalliianum Schultes in Roemer & Schultes 
Syst. Veg. Mant. 1 (1822) 65. 
Monolepis chenopodioides§ Moquin-Tandon in de 
Candolle Prodr. 13, pt. 2 (1849) 85. 
Hu-rt-tub-huh. 
‘Grind seed and make it into a mush.’’ 
Sarcobatus vermiculatus ( Hooker) Torrey in 
Emory Milit. Reconn. (1848) 149. 
Batis (?) vermiculata Hooker Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2 
(1888) 128. 
Greasewood. 
Dé-bi. 
**Make their planting-sticks and poorer boomerangs 
of this.” 
AMARANTACEAE 
(Amaranth Family ) 
Amaranthus blitoides S. Watson in Proc. Amer. 
Acad. 12 (1877) 2738. 
Prostrate Amaranth, Spreading Pigweed. 
Bo-ci-u. 
‘*Make a mush from the ground seed.’”’ 
Amaranthus cruentus Linnaeus Syst. Nat. Veg. 
ed. 10, 2 (1759) 1269. 
Amaranthus paniculatus Linnaeus Sp. Pl. ed. 2 (1768) 
1406. 
Cockscomb (native to Asia). 
Ko-mo. 
‘*IFlowers used to color bread red for certain dances. ”” 
Amaranthus Torreyi (.4.Gray) Bentham in S. 
Watson Bot. Calif. 2 (1880) 42. 
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