CERTAIN POISONOUS PLANTS 



interesting adventures. One day they met the 

 Divine Ones, the Twin Sons of the Sun Father, to 

 whom, child-like, they prattled of what they had 

 found out — how they could make people sleep and see 

 ghosts, and how they could make others walk about 

 and see who it was that had stolen something. 

 Thereupon the Divine Ones decided that this little 

 couple knew altogether too much, and should be 

 made away with. So they caused the brother and 

 sister to disappear into the earth forever; and 

 where they sank down flowers sprang up, the counter- 

 part of those that the children had worn upon their 

 heads. The gods called the flowers by the name of 

 the boy, Anegldkya; and by that term the Zunis 

 know them to this day, for the flowers had many 

 children and we find them throughout the land. 



In western Texas and southern New Mexico, rang- 

 ing across the frontier down into Old Mexico, there 

 grows a handsome shrub of the Pea family, with 

 glossy, odd-pinnate, evergreen leaves of leathery 

 texture, and one sided racemes of papilionaceous, 

 violet-colored flowers, succeeded by long pods that 

 contain about half a dozen large scarlet bean-like 

 seeds apiece. This is the Eed Bean, Mescal Bean, 

 or as the Spanish-speaking population call it, Fri- 

 jolillo, which means the "little pink bean." To 



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