°'"'°*^^ TAXONOMIC LIST OF PLANTS II3 



The Dakota used mint as a flavor in co„l<ing ,neat. Thev also 

 packed It with their stox-es of dried n.eat, nudung alternate a," 

 of dried meat and mint. -^ 



A Winnebago informant said tiiat traps were boiled with nunt 

 in order to deodorize them so that animals mi-ht „„t he deterred 

 by the scent of blood from entering them. 



Ag.astache axethiodor.4 (Xutt.) Britton. Fragrant Giant IIv.ssop 

 Wild Anise. 

 The leaves of this plant were commonly used to make a hot aqueous 

 drink like tea to be taken with meals. It was also used as a sweet- 

 ening flavor in cookery. 



SOLANACEAE 



Phvsalts heterophvlla Nees. Ground Cherry. 

 Tamanlohpe (Dakota). 



Pe igatush (Omaha-Ponca) ; pe, forehead; kjatush, to pop. The 

 name has reference to the use by children of tlie inflated persist- 

 ent calices which they pop on the forehead in play. 

 Nikakitspak (Pawnee) ; nikako, forehead; kitspak, to pop. 

 The fruits of the edible species, P. heterophylla, are made into a 

 sauce for food by all these tribes. When a sufficient quantity of them 

 was found they were dried for winter. When the Dakota first saw 

 figs they likened them to Physalis (Tajmniofvpe), and called them 

 Twnmniohpe washichu", " white man's tamaniokpe." 

 Physalis lanceolata Michx.' Prairie Ground Cherry. 

 MaJca"^ ba<shako"-sho'' (Omaha-Ponca), "crooked medicine" 

 {hashaisho''sho'', crooked, referring to the root of this species). 

 Ha^pok -hischa.su (Winnebago), "owl eyes" [hcfpok^oy^-X; hischaau, 



eyes). 

 The root of this plant was used in the smoke treatment. .\ decoc- 

 tion of the root was used for stomach trouble and for headache. A 

 dressing for wounds was also made from it. 



Nicotian A quadrivalvis Pursh. Tobacco. (PI. 27, b.) 



Cha"di (Dakota) ; Teton dialect, cha"H. 



Nini-hi ( Omaha - Ponca ) . 



This sj^ecies of Nlcotiana was cultivated by all the tribes of Ne- 

 braska. Since the advent of Eurojieans tobacco is one of the crops 

 whose culture has been abandoned by these tribes, and they have all 

 lost the seed of it, so that the oldest living Omaha have never seen it 

 growing; but they sometimes receive presents of the prepared tobacco 



iThis Is the sppoies which Is Intended by the reference on p. 584 of The Omaha 

 Tribe, Twenty-seventh Rep. Bur. of Amer. Ethn. The reference here names I'hyaalia 

 vUcora, no donbt an error for P. viacosa. Bot P. viscosa Is native to the Atlantic coast 

 and is not found in the territory of the Omaha. 



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