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. 1939. Vernacular names in Wildfowl Food Plants, Collegiate Press, 



Ames, Iowa, pp. 112-122. 



Macnamara, Charles. 1940. The identity of the tree "annedda." Science, 

 92(2376), July 12, p. 35. Probably Tsuga canadcmis. 



Mattoon, Wilbur R. 1936. Forest trees and forest regions of the United States. 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Misc. Publ. 217, 54 pp. 



Pieters, A. J., and Davis, F. F. 1939. Common names of turf grasses. Turf 

 Culture, 1(2), April, pp. 120-143. 



Taylor, E. B. 1906. The Georgia bark or Quinine tree (Pinckneya pub ens) . 

 The Plant World, 9(2), February, pp. 39^3. Names of numerous plants 

 of the southern pine barrens. 



Yanovsky, Elias. 1936. Food plants of the North American Indians. U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Misc. Publ. 237, 83 pp. 



Glossary 



PoLYPODiACEAE. 1. Acrostichuiti aureum L. — Sea fern. Everglades, Fla., 

 E. G. Holt (Wilson Bui., 36(1), March, 1929, p. 12). 



Equisetaceae. 2. Eqiiisetmii fluviatilc L. — Stovepipe reed, Mafeking, Mani- 

 toba, L. Butler (Canadian Field-Naturalist, 54, 1940, p. 37). 



3. Equisetum spp. — Goose grass, Alaska, L. J. Goldman. 

 Pinaceae. 4. Pinus ccmbroides Zuccarini. — Mexican nut pine, Arizona, 

 E. D. Ball (Journ. Ec. Ent. 29, 1936, p. 680). 



5. Pinus piingcns Lambert. — Squirrel pine, Huntington, Pa. Its cones are 



eagerly sought by squirrels. Wm. Mollenhauer, Jr. (Journ. Forestry, 

 37(5), May, 1939, p. 421). 



6. Pinus taeda L. — White pine, Virginia (Clapin, 1907, p. 261). 



7. Picea canadensis Miller. — Epinette blanche, French Canada (Clapin, 



1907, p. 174) ; subekoondark, Indian name, Maine (Thoreau, Maine 

 Woods, 1883, p. 325). 



8. Picea mariana Miller. — Epinette noire, French Canada (Clapin, 1907, 



p. 174) ; skusk, Indian name, Maine (Thoreau, Maine Woods, 1883, 

 p. 325). 



9. Jitniperus comnmms L. — Crow-berry, Hudson's Bay, John Richardson, 



(Fauna Boreali-Americana, 2, 1831, p. 248). 



Gnetaceae. 10. Ephedra spp. — Canutillo (Bentley, 1932, pp. 115-116). 



Typhaceae. 11. Typha latifolia L. — Flat grass, Santee Club, S. C. 



Zannichelliaceae. 12. Potamogeton pectinaftis L. — Bay grass, Norfolk, 

 Va., E. L. Mayer; bufif grass, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., C. Cottam; nut 

 grass, Suisun Marshes, Calif., J. Mofifitt (Condor, 40, 1938, p. 78). In 

 this series and elsewhere, the writer has recorded 18 different terms 

 for this plant, most of them in genuine vernacular use. Yet we find in 

 botanies the invented bookish appellation, fennel-leaved pondweed. 



Vallisneriaceae. 13. Vallisneria spiralis L. — Canvasback grass, duck grass 

 (Doughty, Cabinet 1830-31, I, p. 182, I, pp. 41) ; channel-weed C. S. 

 Rafinesque (Medical Repository, 2(2), 1804, p. 208) ; river-weed, 

 Silver Springs, Fla. 



Gramineae. 14. Andropogon harbinodis Lagasca. — Broom-rape, Arizona, 

 E. D. Ball (Journ. Ec. Ent. 29, 1936, p. 680) . Is this merely a modifica- 

 tion through bad penmanship of broom-sage {i.e., sedge) ? 

 15. Andropogon jurcatns Muhlenberg. — Purple-fingered grass (Thoreau, 

 Excursions, 1883, p. 223). 



