110 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [ Dec. 8, 
The name hop-nis, as rendered by Professor Kalm who obtained it 
from Indians on the Susquehanna river, and the term whop-pan-ies as 
used in the Gilbert narrative, differ in orthography, but the pronuncia- 
tion of the two words is so nearly alike there can be no reasonable 
doubt of their identity. The modern Seneca for ground nut is 
yo-a-jah-go-o, which is interpreted, “being always in the ground.” 
An extended study of the subject impresses the writer with a 
belief that the bread root mentioned by Luke Swetland, can be iden- 
tified as Arum’ triphyllum of the botanist, commonly known as Indian 
FLOWER AND FruIT OF ARUM TRIPHYLLUM, AND O-A-O-SAH OR BABY-BOARD. 
turnip, and variously termed three-leaved arum, wake robin, dragon 
root, pepper turnip, swamp turnip, starchworth, bog onion, priest’s 
pintle, lord and ladies, jack in the pulpit, etc. This plant possesses 
every essential of nativity and quality requisite for a bread root, such 
as may have been used by the Indians during Swetland’s enforced 
residence among them. It grows in damp woods, in swamps, in low 
1" The name Arisema ig said to be a play upon the older name Arum. Torrey’s Flora. 
