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At San Ildefonso the chewed leaves are put on a sore or swelling, 

 and at Santa Clara the roots are used as a remedj'^ for diarrhea. 



Piyijwih'., 'mountain slope' (pi?;, mountain; ywiki, steeip slope). 

 Why the plant should be called thus could not be explained. 

 Laciniaria punctata. Bhizing Star. 

 The roots were eaten as food. 



Lappula fiorihunda. Stickseod. 



P'^e'ns^Vh''QurbHy^ 'brown weed' {p^e'n^ti, weed; '(/, brown). 

 Lupinus adnincus. Lupine. 



Tosqmhe. 

 Martijnia sp. 

 The open seed-vessels, wound aoout with woolen yarn, are some- 

 times used at Santa Clara and at Hano in making artificial flowers for 

 dancers' headdresses. ^ 



F^end^\ tsiteHtj, 'stick}^ weed' {p'e^n^tl, weed; tsite, stick}', 



usually said of glutinous substances). 

 ? Fuh^ (Santa Clara). 

 Nuttallia multtflora. 

 This plant is rough, covered with minute hairs, and clings to cloth- 

 ing tenaciously. A young boy, before he is put on a horse for the 

 first time, is stripped of his clothing and this rough plant rubbed 

 briskly on the bare skin of his legs. His clothing is put on and he is 

 placed on the back of the horse. The Tewa maintain that this treat- 

 ment enables the boy to adhere to the horse. 



The Franciscan Fathers apply "tenacious" to the sticky quality of 

 MentzeUa (Nuttallia).^ 



Sy>ts/gi'itj {sy,^ to smell, intransitive; fg/gi'itj, unexplained). 

 Mo7iarda itieiithcefolia. Horsemint. According to E. Cata of 

 San Juan the English-speaking Americans call this plant 

 Penn3"roya1. 

 At San Ildefonso parts of the plant are cooked with meat to flavor 

 the latter. The dried plant is ground fine and the powder is rubbed 

 over the head as a cure for headache or all over the body as a cure 

 for fever. 



At Santa Clara syisigi^iyj is a very popular remedy. As a treatment 

 for sore throat, a decoction of the dried leaves is taken internally, 

 and, at the same time, a small quantity of the dried and ground leaves 

 is enclosed in a narrow strip of deerskin or calico and worn by the 

 patient around his neck. As sy,fsigi''iy is regarded as one of the 



1 The Zuiii use these seed-vessels in the same way. 



2 The Franciscan Fathers, An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language, St. Michaels, A rizona, 

 p. 194, 1910. 



