9 5 March 1749, 



Hopniss or Hapnifi was the Indian name 

 of a wild plant, which thev ate at that 

 time. The Swedes Hill call it by that name, 

 and it grows in the meadows in a good foil. 

 The roots refemble potatoes, and were 

 boiled by the Indians, who eat them inftead 

 of bread. Some of the Swedes at that time 

 likewife ate this root for want of bread. 

 Some of the Englijh {till eat them inftead of 

 potatoes. Mr. Bartram told me, that the 

 Indians who live farther in the country do 

 not only eat thefe roots, which are equal in 

 goodnefs to potatoes, but like wife take the 

 peafe which ly in the pods of this plant, 

 and prepare them like common peafe.* Dr. 

 Linnceus calls the plant Glycine Apios. 



Katniss is another Indian name of a 

 plant, the root of which they were likewife 

 accuftcmed to eat, when they lived here. 

 The Swedes ftill prefer /e this name. It 

 grows in low, muddy and very wet ground* 

 The root is oblong, commonly an inch and 

 an half long, and one inch and a quarter 

 broad in the middle j but fome of the roots 

 have been as big as a man's fills. The In- 

 dians either boiled this root or roafled it in 

 hot ames. Some of the Swedes likewife 

 eat them with much appetite, at the time 

 when the Indians wore fo near the coaft j 

 but at prefent none of them make any ufe 



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