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AMERICAN HONEY PLANTS 



nish-Californian name, derived from the custom of the Indians to use the 

 heavy-scented herbage of this plant to stupefy fish in small streams, to 

 catch them by hand. He gives the range as dry open areas from the plains 

 or the Sacramento and San Joaquin, Sierra Nevada foothills to the low 



Fig. 138. Blossoms of the tiipelo gum. 



