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Edible plants: — Muize, stulels; the Artnif/s, st'kwau (NisU.)) sklOl (Siioli); 

 arrow-head {sagittaria), spe'-o-kots, the, name also given to the potato; wild tulip 

 {UHum), chii'-ltikw ; tigerUlij [L. (7««a/?e«se), tsa'gwitsh ; n^ild carrot, sha'gnk; the 

 cultivated carrot, gul bwul-tutn, sha'-gak, or tchite mauls carrot; turnips, iVi'-ihi- 

 bokb; yellow dock, ta-hot-sa; jjrairie-thistle, ii'bo\b ; sun-Jlowcr root, kiils; dandelion, 

 s'cbobalb; wild celery, skwul-bnts; ground-grape (the tuber of a species of equi.se- 

 tuni), buphnp (Nisk.), butl-de' (Sky.) ; root of brahefern (eaten in times of scaicity), 

 tud-de. 



Medicinal herbs : — Nettle, tsudsh, s'hudsh (used for small-pox) ; thistle, ha'-batl 

 cbitl [to promote menstrual discharge) ; liquorice-fern {polypodium fakatum), skluelk 

 (an expectorant) ; yarrow, kik-dzo'-bap ; diarrhaa {■spircm), katsa'-gwfits, {dysentery); 

 yerba buena, a ground-vine, so called in California, stot'-bodup, te'-bats (used ibr 

 tea), wbii b latter name also is given to common tea. Cbicbe'luts, a shrubby, sweit 

 scented plant, is also used for the same purpose. There are a number of others em- 

 ployed for different ailments, not recorded. Arbutus uva ursi, skai'-wa-duts, the 

 leaves used for smoking. 



Jliscellaueous plants: — 8olomo7i''s seal [smilax), s'-ho'-ho-lop ; Solomon''s seal 

 (small species), mut-sets'da-letl ; trillium, shukh-shu-bats (shuk'h, above), ka-lob a 

 swa tekhw' -til {the eye of the earth) ; columbine, tsum-tsum-us; wild pea, chitsh-la'- 

 hwats; /«j>m, kwau'-se uts ; skunk-cabbage {symplocarims kamschatcicus), kelt; gera- 

 nium, hnts-huts-ats'; honeysuckle, y.u-do-uts (ye' do, a swing); sorrel, to'-buts; grass, 

 skwe'-a-kwnl li (Nisk.), ,sa'-hwil (Sky.); '^ sawgrass", hwt'-ake' ; .//fw, ka gwfd'hw ; 

 a grass tised for sewing mats, gwns-t-ob ; sedge, s'ho'-pats; seed-stem of sedge, s'heks; 

 eel grass, kla'-bads; cattail rush {typha), o\ii\ ; tide rush, kwe'-kwats; brake-fern, 

 cha'-lesh-uis (from cha'-lesh, hand) ; wood-fern, s'he-das' ; small sand eqidsetum, tse- 

 ba'-led ; ligneous fungi {grovfing ou trees), pe-lol-kwad ; toadstools, tsal; Hverwort, 

 se'-yup a swuk-ke' uk (Nisk.), wuk-wuk alks (Sky.), literally, thefrog^s apron; lich- 

 ens, mosses, kwud-zab; Spanish moss, \w\-ke {W\&k.), sMn'-kwa-lush (Sky.); ground- 

 moss, kechai ; ground-pine (lycopodimn), ket-he-chaib. 



Flay, to (to amuse one's self), o cha'-a-chatl, o-ha-had-shid. / amuse myself, am playing, 

 shitl-ha hadshid. 



Please (some form of supplication), o-sha' bits. Please to tell me, man, o-sha'-bits yet- 

 sum tobsh. 



Plenty, enough, q. v., ka. 



Plough, to, hwe'-chi doi). 



Pluck out, to (as the hair), ohut'-zo-sub (from sknd-zo, hair). 



Plumbago (used for paini), pi-ekht. 



Point of land, promontory, cape, skwetsks (Nisk.) ; schetks (Sky.). One in the forks of a 

 river, sko-al'-ko. Point of a knife, needle, tOe., se'-luks. Pointed, hwudsks. 



Poke, to (as the fire), o-klel'-tud. See '^To prick'''. 



Portage, a, stukh-o-gwitl. Stukh apparently is a raft or other obstruction in a river. 



Potatoes, spe'-okots (the root of sagittaria). 



Pound, to (as seeds or roots in a mortar), to'-pud, tse'-akw. To pound with sticks, drum, 

 o-tla'-liwud-dub. To pound or hammer, ot-salt-hu. 



Pour, empty, spill, to, o-kwutl. I pour out, o-kwutl chid ((pi. also o kwult). 



Pout, to, hobai nt sid. (See '■'■Lips"). 



Powder. See '■'Gun". 



