202 PHARMACOPEIAL DRUGS 



(Juan R. Navarro, editor), 1852, was translated into 

 English by A. G. Randall, Secretary and Translator 

 of the Lower California Company's Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, San Francisco, May, 1867. 



P. 164 of J. Ross Browne's Book, loc. at., says, as 

 bearing on our subject: 



"In some parts there grows, near running streams, 

 reed grass, of the thickness of the little finger. 



"THIS LITTLE REED IS THE ONLY PLANT IN CALI- 

 FORNIA IN WHICH MANNA is FOUND. At the present 

 time there are large growths of this imported from 

 abroad." 



[NOTE. Some time after this paper was placed in 

 the hands of Professor Fliickiger, the following informa- 

 tion was found in the Lloyd Library, and a copy at 

 once forwarded to Prof. Ed. Schar, Strasburg, for the 

 purpose of supplementing the present paper. 



From the U. S. Agricultural Report for 1870, Food 

 Products of the North American Indians, p. 423, "Bent 

 grass (Arundo Phragmitesy (which is a synonym for 

 Phragmites communis, Trin.). 



"This species of reed, which grows abundantly 

 around St. Thomas, in southern Utah, during the sum- 

 mer months, produces a kind of white, sweet gum. 

 The Utah Indians cut down the reeds and lay them in 

 piles on blankets or hides, and let them remain for a 

 short time to wilt, when the bundles are beaten with 

 rods to release the gum. The small particles so de- 

 tached are pressed into balls to be eaten at pleasure." 



