INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
he-si’-1-yo-tsi’-mo-ist, Marchantia polymorpha, used as 
a medicine. 
tsih-i-wop-tsa’-a-wo-ist, Achillea millifolium. 
wo-ko-mi-si’-i-dts, Hintoca sericea. 
toh’-to-i-wa-nost, a gray shrubby plant, like Linosy- 
7S. 
toli-to-i-Gil’-1-wo-yast, a common ground lichen. 
tsi-waks-tsi’-a-wo-ist, a fire-weed growing on the tops 
Lrechthites. 
toli-to-e’-o-pais, a fungus, a small puff-ball. 
of the mountains. 
¢ili-Ga-e’-o-ni’-o-wist, a shrub growing abundantly in 
the Shyenne country. 
mish-kim’, box elder. Acer negundo. 
hais-tali-pa-nis’-to-tuts, ‘white grass or weeds;”’ a low 
species of Hrigonum growing among the rocks. 
eli’-o-wo-ist, “jagged seeded.” Atriplex. 
i-a-kis’. Spirea. 
o-ta’-tOn-wi-si’-i-6ts, “‘ green medicine ;”” 
a plant grow- 
ing on the Big-horn Mountains. 
ma-ko’-ist, “red-weed.”’ pilobium effuswm. 
we’-si-wo, a kind of grass, the stem of which is used 
to clean out the pipe-stem. 
na-si’-tsi-wo, ‘‘ pipe-tail grass,” a species of grass. 
ho-i-nos, ‘‘ bunch-weed ;” a species of Hrigeron, erow- 
ing in bunches. 
hai’-ku-ni-ka-mah’, ‘strong or hard wood;” a bush 
growing in the mountains. 
si-wopst-¢i’-a-wo-ist, ‘‘ gray grass with white blossoms.” 
Antennaria plantaginifolia. 
ais’-to-mi-wa-nost, ‘white weed of the prairie,” a 
woolly plant. 
tséh-e’-wo-nist, “rattling weed.”  Penstemon. 
he-e-wa-nost’, “ woman-weed ;”’ so called because it is 
used by the women during the period of their 
menses asa tea. Artemisia friyida. 
mOli-ta’-wi-wa-nost, ‘‘black-eray grass.” Artemisia 
ludoviciana. 
so-so’-ni-wa-nost, “‘snake-weed;” a kind of Artemisia. 
Tt is called “bad- 
weed” because it catches the clothes with its 
wi-oli’-i-wa-nost, “ bad-weed.” 
thorns. 
ksa-ma-tum-dts, “bush that the big-horn eats ;” 
grows in the mountains; looks like a Smilax. 
hai-i-so’, “‘prairie-water weed.’ Polygonum ramo- 
sissimum. 
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wis-ki-e’-mi-ndst, “sweet blueberries ;” 
a large-leaved 
plant growing in the mountains. 
mi-ni-mi-notst, “rattlesnake bush ;” so called because 
the rattlesnake is supposed to eat the leaves. 
Berberis aquifolium. 
shi-sto-to’", a spruce pine. 
ma-pi’-mo-ist, “weeds that the water flows through.” 
Parnassia. 
na-ko’-is-ta'-tsi-mi-nu, “bear berry,” black haw; so 
called because the bears eat the fruit. 
si-uh-i-i'-si-o-te-si’-ist, fox-tail grass; named from the 
beards which get in the mouth, and work down 
the throat, and excite coughing. 
hon-ski-wi’-si-wo, “grass with a small stem,” a spe- 
cies of grass. 
i-ta/-ni-wa-nost’, “man’s weed,” Artemisia Canaden- 
sis. 
mo-i-ac’, “ milk-weed,” Lygodesmia juncea. 
mo-to¢’, ‘‘bitterwood,” Populus, bitter cottonwood. 
ais’-to-mi-moh’-shin, “sweet-smelling prairie weed,” 
Scrophularia nodosa. 
ais’-to-mis-ta’-si-mi-nu’, “the prickly berry,’ Rides 
Missouriensis. 
o-inds’, ‘wood that grows in the prairie,” MHelian- 
thus giganteus. 
moh’-ta-wi-si’-i-dtst, “black medicine-weed,” Liatris. 
ho-e-toh’-o-nost, ‘gummy weed,” Grindelia squarrosa. 
mili-a-haist’, “‘bird-weed,”’ same as the name of a 
bird. 
o’-ta-mi-mi-nost’, “dog bush,” Acer Pennsylvanicum. 
wi-ski-e’-mi-nu, “very sweet berry,” Rubus strigosus. 
wi-ski-e/-mi-nué, red raspberries. 
ma-ai’-no-was, the burrs of Glycyrrhiza lepidota. 
ma-¢ai’-no-wa-si-wu’, the stalk of the last. 
wish-ke’, Populus, sweet cottonwood. 
ma-pi’-moli-shin, “sweet-smelling water-weed,’’ Men- 
tha Canadensis. 
mili-ni-mi-nust’, so called because the animals crush 
the fruit with their teeth, Celtis crassifolia. 
na-ko-is-ta’-tsi-min “bear-killer,’ Crategus coceineus. 
Tt received its name from the Indians, because 
they say that when the bears eat the fruit, it 
causes them so great pain, that they try to tear 
out their bowels. 
