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The Dakota used mint as a flavor in cooking meat. They also 
packed it with their stores of dried meat, making alternate layers 
of dried meat and mint. 
A Winnebago informant said that traps were boiled with mint 
in order to deodorize them so that antmals might not be deterred 
by the scent of blood from entering them. 
AGASTACHE ANETHIODORA (Nuit.) Britton. Fragrant Giant Hyssop, 
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 
PuHYSALIS HETEROPHYLLA Nees. Ground Cherry. 
Tamaniokipe (Dakota). 
Pe igatush (Omaha-Poncea) ; pe, forehead; igatush, to pop. The 
name has reference to the use by children of the 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 (Tamaniolipe), and called them 
Tamaniolipe washichu", “ white man’s tamaniolipe.” 
Puysauis LANCEOLATA Michx.t Prairie Ground Cherry. 
Maka" bashaho-sho" (Omaha-Ponea), “crooked medicine ” 
(bashasho"sho", crooked, referring to the root of this species). 
Ha"pok-hischasu, (Winnebago), “owl eyes” (ha"pok, owl; hischasu, 
eyes). 
The root of this plant was used in the smoke treatment. A decoc- 
tion of the root was used for stomach trouble and for headache. A 
dressing for wounds was also made from it. 
Nicorrana quaprivatvis Pursh. Tobacco. (PI. 27, b.) 
Chandi (Dakota) ; Teton dialect, chanli. 
Nini-hi (Omaha-Ponea). 
This species of Vicotiana was cultivated by all the tribes of Ne- 
braska. Since the advent of Europeans 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 
1This is the species which is intended by the reference on p. 584 of The Omaha 
Tribe, Twenty-seventh Rep. Bur. of Amer. Ethn, The reference here names Physalis 
viscora, no doubt an error for P. viscosa. But P, viscosa is native to the Atlantic coast 
and is not found in the territory of the Omaha. 
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