"'^"^ORE] TAXONOMIC LIST OF PLANTS U5 



Plantacinaceae 



Plantago major L. Plantain. 



Sinie nmka." ( Omaha -Ponca). 



A Ponca gave n.e the information that a bunch of leaves of this 

 plant made hot and applie.l to the foot is good to draw out a thorn 

 or splinter. 



RllUACEAE 



Galium triflorum Michx. Fragrant Bedstraw, Lady's Boiiqiiot. 



Wau-j>esfie (Omaha-Ponca), woman's herb, or wau-inu-moka", 

 woman's perfume (irau^ woman). 



The plant was used by women on account of its fragrance, a deli- 

 cate odor given off in withering, which resembles the odor of sweet- 

 grass, a handful of the i)lant being tucked under the girdle. 



^'AI'lill'OLIACEAE 



Sambucus CANADENSIS L. Elderberry. 



Chaputa (Dakota) ; rh/ijnita-hii, elder bush. 



Wagathahashla. (Omaha-Poncu) ; wa(/ath^ihashhi-M, elder bush. 



SMrarht (Pawnee). 



The fruits were used for food in the fresh stat<?. The lai'ger stems 

 of the bush were used by small boys for making popguns. A pleas- 

 ant drink was made by dipping the blossoms into liot water. 

 ViBtTRNUM LENTAGo L. Black Haw, Nannyberry. 



Mrui (Dakota) ; nuia-ku, black haw bush. 



Na"s7unna" ( Omaha-Ponca) . 



Wvvni (Winnebago). 



Akiwasa-s (Pawnee) ; naming names. 



The fruits were eaten from the hand, not gathered in quantity. 



ViBURNtHM OPULUS L. " High-busli Cranberry," Pembina.' 



In the north, where Smtil)u.cus canadensis is not found, boys made 

 popguns from stalks of Vihiirnum opiilus after removing the T)ith. 



1 The name pembina is herewith proposed as a popular name for this slirul) heca\ise of 

 the atrocious ineptness of the name " high-bush cranberry," since the berry of Viburnum 

 is notUinj; lllie a crant)erry, and also because of the fact that the name pembina is 

 already commonly applied to this shrub and its fruit by the people of northern North 

 Dakota and Manitoba. Th.' word pembina is a white man's corruption of tlic niunc of 

 thla berry in the Chippewa language, which Is nrpinminan, summer-berry; nrpiii. sum- 

 mer: and minan berry. The pronunciation of pembina is indicated thus: pfni'-blna. 

 Thla name was applied to a river and mountain In North Dakota, and suteecnientl.v to a 

 town and county of that State. The Chippewa call the river Nepin-minan Sipl (Summer- 

 berry River), because of the abundance of these beirles growing along the couirse of that 

 stream. 



