GILMorE] TAXONOMIC LIST OF PLANTS WabGs 
PLANTAGINACEAE 
Prantaco Magor L. Plantain. 
Sinie maka" (Omaha-Ponca). 
A Ponca gave me the information that a bunch of leaves of this 
plant made hot and applied to the foot is good to draw out a thorn 
or splinter. 
RUBIACEAE 
Gatium TrIrLoruM Michx. Fragrant Bedstraw, Lady’s Bouquet. 
Wau-pezhe (Omaha-Ponea), woman’s herb, or wau-inu-maka", 
woman’s perfume (waw, 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 plant being tucked under the girdle. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
Sampucus canapensis L. Elderberry. 
Chaputa (Dakota) ; chaputa-hu, elder bush. 
Wagathahashka (Omaha-Ponca) ; wagathahashka-hi, elder bush. 
Skirariu (Pawnee). 
The fruits were used for food in the fresh state. The larger stems 
of the bush were used by small boys for making popguns. A pleas- 
ant drink was made by dipping the blossoms into hot water. 
Visurnum tentaco L. Black Haw, Nannyberry. 
Mna (Dakota) ; mna-hu, black haw bush. 
Na'shama" (Omaha-Ponea). 
Wuwu (Winnebago). 
Akiwasas (Pawnee) ; naming names. 
The fruits were eaten from the hand, not gathered in quantity. 
Visurnum oputus L. “ High-bush Cranberry,” Pembina.* 
In the north, where Sambucus canadensis is not found, boys made 
popguns from stalks of Viburnum opulus after removing the pith. 
1The name pembina is herewith proposed as a popular name for this shrub because of 
the atrocious ineptness of the name “ high-bush cranberry,” since the berry of Viburnum 
is nothing like a cranberry, 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. The word pembina is a white man’s corruption of the name of 
this berry in the Chippewa language, which is nepin-minan, summer-berry ; nepin, sum- 
mer; and minan berry. The pronunciation of pembina is indicated thus: pém’-bi-na. 
This name was applied to a river and mountain in North Dakota, and subsequently to a 
town and county of that State. The Chippewa call the river Nepin-minan Sipi (Summer- 
berry River), because of the abundance of these berries growing along the course of that 
stream. 
