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tains, ill the making of baskets, especiall}" as radials or uprights. 

 (Mary II. ^Manning, letter.) The burden basket, })aby basket, and 

 salmon plate of tlie Hupas are made entirely of the shoots of hazelnut. 

 (P. E. Goddai-d, notes.) (See Plate 4.) 



Covillea tridentata. Creosote Bu8h. 



A gum-lac found upon the branches of this desert bush has a wide 

 application among the southwestern Indians as a cement and among 

 the Cocopas of northern Lower California it is used for pitching 

 baskets. (E. Palmer, notes.) The gum, which occurs in conspicuous 

 nodules of a reddish amber color, is not a direct exudation from the 

 plant, but is deposited by a minute scale insect, Carteria larreae. 



Dasylirion ■wheeleri. Sotol. 



The leaves, split into strands about a quarter of an inch wide and 

 the coarse marginal teeth removed, are used among the Pima Indians 

 of southern Arizona in coarse twilled baskets. (Cat. No. 218027, 



U.S.N.M.) 



Delphinium scaposum. Larkspur. 



So-r(/-si (Moki). 



The flowers are the source of a light-blue dye used by the Moki 

 Indians of northern Arizona in their coiled and wicker plaques. (W. 

 Hough, notes.) 



Desclianipsia caespitosa. Tufted Hairgrass. 



Kut-kuk-kli'-te shark (Tlinkit). 



This is one of the grasses the split stems of which are used among 

 the Tlinkit Indians of the south Alaskan coast to form the white pat- 

 terns on their spruce-root baskets. (G. T. Emmons, notes.) 



Dondia suffrutescens. Sea Elite. 



The Coahuilla Indians of the Colorado desert in southern Califor- 

 nia, blacken the stems of their l)asketry rush {Juncus acutits) by steep- 

 ing them for several hours in a decoction of this plant. (E. Palmer, 

 1878.) The identification of the species is by W. L. Jepson. 



Elymus mollis. Beach Rye. 



The split stems of this grass are sometimes used for the white pat- 

 terns in the spruce-root baskets of the Tlinkit Indians on the south 

 Alaskan coast. This material is employed only for coarse Ayork, and 

 when other grasses better adapted for the purpose are not available. 

 (G. T. Emmons, notes.) 



