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plants. The leaves of both of these bear in certain localities 
a thickened fleshy gall, evidently caused by some insect. 
The natives, particularly the Haidas, are very fond of these 
galls and eat them raw. The name in Haida is SKLUK- 
WUD-DISH, from SKLUK-WUN or STE-KWUN, a finger-nail. The 
flower itself is called TA-nrr. 
SALIX SITCHENSIS (Sitka Willow) is the only member of 
this well-distributed genus that I succeeded in collecting 
here, though I understand there is another growing on the 
Junock river. It grows from 8 to 25 feet high and is not at 
all common, being strictly confined to moist creek banks 
and deltas, the two localities shunned by Menziesia. It 
flowers early in June and appears to prefer the lower levels, 
all that I found being below the altitude of 500 feet. The 
natives put the young supple twigs to a number of economic 
uses, such as the frame-work of baskets, frames for stretching 
skins, ete. 
Cornus Canapensis, in Haida Tsex-nvp, is the most uni- 
versal plant in this region, occurring from sea level up to 
abont 1,000 feet and growing in all coniferous woods. The 
fruit is eaten raw by the natives, but not much valued by 
them owing to the thinness of its pulp and the fact that the 
berries of the three vaccinia first named appear at about the 
same time. I have frequently seen them mix it with tbe 
latter when eaten in the fresh state. 
HERACLEUM LANATUM (Cow Parsnip) in Tsimsian PEY- 
INTZ, in Haida T’HL-KATE, in Tlingit Yow-A-ETH, is pre 
eminently the “ fresh vegetable" of the natives, who gather 
and eat the succulent leaf-stalks and young stems in enor- 
mous quantities, the Kloochmen and children gathering it 
most of the day when it is in proper condition. It is, how- 
ever, seldom eaten after the flowering has begun. Its range 
is from sea level to timber line. 
It flowers from July until 4 
about the end of August, according to elevation, the flowers _ 
