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articles giving valuable accounts of the most important food and 

 drink plants of the North American Indians. Barrows ^ has discussed 

 the ethnobotany of the Coahuilla Indians of southern California, 

 including much information on the general ethnology of the tribe. 

 Chamberlin- gives lists of the plant names of the lite and the Gosiute 

 Indians, including in many instances etymology and uses to which 

 the plants were put. Plants loiown to have been utilized by the 

 Luisenos of southern California are listed by Sparkman,=* with their 

 Luiseno, botanical, and English names. 



Attention is drawn also to the papers by Powers,* Coville,-^ Fewkes,** 

 Hough,'^ Matthews,^ Stevenson,^ and others. 



1 Barrows, David Prescott, The Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California, pp. 1-82, 

 Chicago, 1900. 



2 Chamberlin, Ralph V., Some Plant Names of the Ute Indians, A7ner. Anthr., n. s., xi, no. 1, 1909. Eth- 

 nobotany of the Gosiute Indians, Memoirs Amcr. Anthr. Assoc, ii, pt. .5, pp. 3ol^05, 1911. 



3 Sparkman, Philip Stedman, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, Univ. Calif. Pub., Amcr. Archcol. and 

 £tt7i., vni,pp. 187-234, 1908. 



* Powers, Stephen, Aboriginal Botany, Proc. Calif. Acad. Set., v, pp. 373-379, 1873-7.5. 



6 Coville, F. v.. Plants Used by the Klamath Indians of Oregon, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., v, pp. 87-108, 

 1897. 



6 Fcwkes, J. AV alter, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, Amcr. Anthr. ,ix, no. 1, pp. 14-21, 1896. 



' Hough, Walter, The Hopi in Relation to their Plant Environment, ibid., x, no. 2, pp. 33-44, 1897. 



8 Matthews, Washington, Navajo Names for Plants, Amer. Nat., \x, pp. 767-77, 1886. 



" Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, Thirtieth Ann. Rep., Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, pp. 31-102, 1915. 



