No. 409.] PLANTS USED BY AMERICAN INDIANS. 7 
food. — Corn (33, p. 168): used as food. — Gooseberries (33, p. 143): 
used as food. — Grape (33, p. 153): used as food. — Hemp (38, p. 13): 
fibre used for twine and cordage. — Lichen (33, p. 142): “ripe de 
roche, boiled and used as food. — Pumpkins, or c/fru//es (33, p. 16 4) 
used as food. — Squashes (38, p. 13): cultivated as food. — Tobacco 
(38, p. 13): cultivated, leaves smoked. — Wild rice (13, p. 7 aye “the 
stalk is woven into mats for the walls of the lodges”; fruit used as 
food. 
Mohawk. 
Corn (36, p. 52): cultivated as food. 
Oneida. 
Corn (36, p. 43): cultivated as food. 
Onondaga. 
Apple, szwa-hu-na (10, p. 115). — Basswood, ho-ho-so (10, p. 116): 
used to make fine strings and mats. — Beans, 00-sah-ha-tah (10, 
p. 119): used as food. — Birch, ga-nah-jeh-kwa (10, p. 116): used 
for canoes. — Blackberry, sa-he-is (10, p. 116): used as food. — 
Butternut, oo0-ha-wat-fah (10, p. 119): used as food. — Cat-tail flag, 
oo-na-too-kwa (10, p. 118): used for mats. — Cherry, /a-c-goo-nah 
(10, p. 114): wood used. — Chestnuts, oheh-yah-tah (10, p. 116): used 
as food. — Chokecherry, ne-a-tah-tah-ne (10, p. 114): used as food. — 
Currant, ska-heus-shkah-he (10, p. 119): used as food. — Flax, vv0-skah 
(thread-like) (10, p. 117): used to make thread. — Ginseng, da-hien- 
too-keh (10, p. 115). — Gooseberry, sha-heus-skah-he-goo-na (10, p. 1 14): 
used as food. — Grape, oA-Aeun-&we-sa. (10, p. 114): wild grape, used 
as food; oh-heun-kwe-so-goo-no, cultivated grape, used as food. — 
Hickory, a-ze£, a bitter nut.  ws-ee& (10, p. 1 20). Oo-sook-wah, 
common variety of hickory. — Huckleberry, o-/eah-che (10, p. 116): 
used as food. — Lettuce, 00-na-tah-kah-te (10, p. 115): eaten raw. — 
Maize, v0-ne-hah (10, p. 119): used as food. — May apple, o-na-when- 
stah (10, p. 115) : used as food. — Melon, wah-he-yah-yees (10, p. 114) : 
muskmelon, used as food. Oo-neah-sa-kah-te (10, p. 114) : watermelon, 
used as food. — Peaches, oo-goon-wAy-e (10, p. 114) : used as food. — 
Pear, žoon-de-soo-kwis (10, p. 114): used as food. — Peas, o-na-kwa (10, 
p. 119) : used as food. — Peppermint, kah-nah-noos-tah (10, p. 116). 
— Plum, £a-£a-£a£-ne (10, p. 118): wild plum, used for food. — Potato, 
o0-neh-noo-kwa (10, p. 119) : used as food. — Raspberry, o-nah-joo-kwa 
(10, p. 116): used as food. Tew-tone hok-toon (10, p. 116) : black 
