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Yucca angustifolia Pursh, tsa’-si-tsoz, “ slender Yucca.” 
Calochortus nuttalli Torrey, al-tsee'-nee-tha'-t, “children’s food 
or corn.” Children eat the bulb. 
Order GRAMINEÆ. 
Sporobolus cuspidatus, bay'-ee-jo, “an instrument to comb or 
brush the hair.” The Indians of the Southwest make brushes 
from this grass. 
Sporobolus crytandrus Gray, tloh-tsoz’-ee, “slender hay.” 
Oryzopsis cuspidata Bentham, in-dit-lith'-ee, “ burnt off or burnt 
free” The name refers to the persistent chaff which can only be 
removed by roasting when the edible seeds are cleaned. 
Bouteloua hirsuta Lagasca, Woh-nas-tas'-ce, “bending hay.” 
the racemes are curved almost to a semicircle. 
Poa andina Nuttall, tsin-ya-tloh’, “hay under the trees.” In 
the Navajo country the habitat of this grass is usually sub- 
arboreal, 
Phragmites communis Linnzus, tloh-kah’, “arrow-hay.” The 
culms were formerly used for arrow-shafts. 
Hordeum jubatum Linnæus, ha-zay'-il-go-ee, “ runs down the 
throat.” A spikelet once in the mouth is with difficulty ejected, 
it tends to go further down. Itis usually necessary to pull it out 
with the fingers. 
In addition to the above there are many names for which no 
satisfactory etymology can be found. 
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CROW ROOSTS AND ROOSTING CROWS. 
BY SAMUEL N. RHOADS. 
(Continued from p. 701, August Number.) 
THE nearest roost to Bristol, now existing in the State of Penn- 
Sylvania, of which I am able to get account, is situate in 
ontgomery county, on the farm of Alfred Moore, and near the ` 
Post-hamlet of Davis’ Grove. This gentleman informs me that 
they (the crows) first came to his place in the winter of 1878, 
rom Camp Hill, in the same county, which locality he remem- 
F to have been their rendezvous for twenty-five years. The 
Present roost covers about twenty acres. Careful average esti- 
roia of the number of birds commonly roosting per acre show 
_ “© Maximum to be about ten thousand. Therefore, although 
