GILMORE] TAXONOMIC LIST OF PLANTS 89 
The time of the Sun dance was determined by the ripening of the 
cherries. It began on the first day of the full moon when cherries 
were ripe. 
A Ponca informant told me that a decoction of cherry bark was 
taken as a remedy for diarrhea. Another informant of the same 
tribe said a spoonful of the dried fruit very finely pulverized and 
infused in hot water was used as a remedy for the same ailment. 
According to the latter informant, trappers washed their traps 
with water in which this bark had been boiled, in order to remove 
the scent of former captures. 
Papus metanocarpa (A. Nelson) Shafer. Western Chokecherry. 
All that has just been said of Padus nana as to tribal nomenclature 
and uses applies equally to Padus melanocarpa. 
Mrmosacear 
Acuan mutnogensis (Michx.) Kuntze. Spider-bean. 
Pezhe gasatho (Omaha-Ponca), “ rattle plant” (pezhe, plant, herb; 
gasatho, rattle). 
Atikatsatsiks (Pawnee), “ spider-bean ” (atit, bean ; tsatsiks, spider ; 
ka, inside). Ati(t)ka tsatsiks. Another name given is kifsit- 
saris, “ bad plant ” (Xéts, plant; tsitsaris, bad). its? (ts?) tsaris. 
When mature the entire plant with its persistent pods filled with 
seeds was used by little boys as a rattle when in play they mimicked 
some of the dances of their people. 
The Pawnee boiled the leaves to make a wash to apply as a remedy 
for the itch. 
CAESALPINIACEAE 
Gymwnoctapus prorca (l.) Koch. Kentucky Coffee-tree. 
Waknakna (Dakota). 
Na"tita (Omaha-Ponca). 
Na*pashakanak (Winnebago). 
Tohuts (Pawnee). 
By the Dakota, Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, and Oto the bark of 
the root after being dried was pulverized and, mixed with water, 
was used as a rectal injection in obstinate cases of constipation, for 
which it was said to be an infallible remedy. This remedy was used 
from time immemorial. Prior to contact with Europeans the In- 
dians made their own syringes, an animal bladder being used for the 
bulb and a hollow cylindrical bone, as the leg bone of a prairie 
chicken, turkey, goose, or other bird, was used for the tube. The 
bulb was attached to the tube by sinew wrapping. When the pul- 
verized bark was put into the water its action was carefully noted 
