as Names for Plants. 
te others from the animals which they seem to attract or furnish : 
ae d for, others from fancied resemblances. The following list of — 
some of the more important plants will show their different 
modes of devising names: . a 
Order RANUNCULACEZ. 
Delphinium scaposum Greene, tha‘-di'-thee-do-tli’, “blue sacred 4 
= powder.” The powdered petals are used by the Shamans as a A 
sacrifice to the gods of the south. Blue is the color sacred to the X 
south in Navajo rites. 
\ 
Order BERBERIDACE. 
Berberis fremontii Torrey and Gray, hin-li-tso\-ee-tso, “ large 
yellow twigs.” Used in dyeing buckskin yellow. “Great Ain- 
bitsoee,” see Berberis repens. 
Berberis. repens Lindley, kin-li-tso-ce, “ yellow twigs.” The 
nf woodi is yellow. 
Order CRUCIFERÆ. 
aioe montana Watson, a-/ij-be-i-tsol. The name refers to its 
rs oppad diuretic properties. 
, Arabis holböltii Hornémann, a-zay’-la-dil-tay’-hay, “ scattered,” 
or “lone medicine.” The plants grow singly and ata distance » 
from one another, not in beds or clusters. 
j Thely podium wrightii Gray, nan-chath'-a-zay’, “ medicine for 
swellings,” : 
Stanleya pinnatifida Nuttall, tseh’-chosh-a-zay, “ medicine for 
the rock-worm,” i. e., a glandular swelling. 
Physaria newberryi Gray, cheesh-a-zay, “sneeze medicine.” 
sims as a snuff in catarrh. 
Veo 
-Order CARYOPHYLLACEÆ. 
erastium arvense Linnzus, tho-ka’-so-kath, “ it Aad in water,” a 
‘it grows in moist places. o 
naria aculeata, a-zay-tlo-ee, “ medicine hay.” 
) Order MALNACEÆ. 
latvastrum coccineum Gray, a-zay-in-kiin'-1, “ gummy OF glu- : 
medicine.” Tbe infusion is a supposed remedy for ei 
lees. Sendiri Day, a-zay-in-klini-tso. Tso = 
see © Malvastrum coccineum. These two pr are mi 
