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The type specimen of Nicotiana attenuata came from the Washoe 

 country in Nevada and I have reliable testimony that it is still used 

 by the Washoe Indians, especially by the older men. To the south, 

 it is used by the Coahuilla Indians of southeastern California, 1 and 

 Leslie Spier has also kindly communicated to me that the Southern 

 Dieguenos about Campo, California, use this species, which they call 

 " Coyote Tobacco," and infrequently cultivate it near house sites. It 

 grows rapidly and high wherever the ground has been newly burned 

 over. " Coyote Tobacco " is used by these Indians to cure colds. It 

 is also used in the south by the Zufii tribes, 2 whence I have received 

 seed through Prof. A. L. Kroeber and have raised plants, and by the 

 Tewa Indians. 3 It was used by the Utes, although not named by 

 Chamberlain, 4 and by the Gosiutes. 5 Dr. Lowie has submitted to me 

 some samples of the tobacco raised by the northern Blackfoot 6 which 

 seems, although fragmentary and much broken, to show the char 

 acteristic hairs of this species. I have received from Mr. James Teit 

 of Spences Bridge, B. C. (through the kind offices of Dr. C. F. New- 

 combe of Victoria), seed of the tobacco formerly cultivated by the 

 Thompson River Indians of that vicinity and have demonstrated that 

 the plants grown from it are true Nicotiana attenuata. C. F. New- 

 combe has informed me that he has strong evidence that this species 

 was also cultivated by the Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands and 

 used for chewing. The evidence for the extent of the aboriginal use 

 of N. attenuata seems to be convincing for the area as mapped and 

 as outlined above. 



Nicotiana attenuata has something of the appearance of a slender 

 N. Bigelovii, but its flowers are smaller and less distinctly salverform, 



i Barrows, The Ethnobotany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern Cal 

 ifornia, Univ. of Chicago, p. 74, 1900. 



2 Stevenson, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, 30th Ann. Rep., Bur. Amer. 

 Ethnology, p. 86, 1915. 



3 Robbins, Harrington, and Freire-Marreco, Botany of the Tewa Indians, 

 Bull. 55, Bur. Amer. Ethnology, pp. 103107, 1916. 



* Chamberlain, Some Plant Names of the Ute Indians, Amer. Anthrop., 

 n. s., vol. ii, 1909. 



5 Ibid., Ethnobotany of the Gosiute Indians, Mem. Amer. Anthrop. Assoc., 

 vol. 2, pt. 5. p. 345, 1911. 



6 Lowie, loc. cit., p. 112. 



