6 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXV. 
TRIBES REPRESENTED. 
Cayuga Mohawk Seneca 
Cherokee Oneida Tuscarora 
Huron Onondaga Wyandot 
Cayuga. 
Buckwheat (36, p. 58): used as food. — Corn (36, p. 57): used as 
food. — Oats (36, p. 58): used as food. — Potatoes (36, p. 58): used 
. as food. — Wheat (36, p. 58): used as food. 
Cherokee. 
Apples (12, p. 11): used as food. — Beans (28, p. 69): used as 
food. — Beggar’s lice (12, p. 11): tea made of it to assist the memory 
“ since it clings so well." — Blackberries (12, p. 11): used as food. — 
Chestnut (28, p. 69): a tuberous root used as food. — China brier 
(23, p. 34): roots used as a blood purifier. — Cone flower (20, p. 197): 
used as a wash for sore eyes. — Grapes (5, pp. 228—29) : used as food. 
— Hemp (5, pp. 228—29) : used for cords. — Hoary pea, Tephrosia vir- 
giniana (12, p. 11): an infusion of it used as a wash to strengthen 
the body. — Hops (5, pp. 228-29): used as food. — Horehound (8 
p. 235): wild horehound used for snake bite. — Lobelia, Zode/ia 
cardinalis, cardinal flower (8, p. 41): a decoction of the root used. 
Lobelia syphilitica, great lobelia (23, p. 34): a blood purifier. — 
May apple, Podophyllum peltatum (23, p. 34): used as medicine. — 
Nettle, Jatropha ureus, white nettle (23, p. 34): roots used as medi- 
cine. — Nordica (23, p. 34): the juice of its white root used as 
medicine, and its roots smoked. — Oats (12, p. 11): cultivated as 
food. — Peaches (12, p. 11): used as food. — Plantain (5, p. 235): 
wild plantain used for snake bite. — Potatoes (12, p. 11): used as 
food. — Pumpkins (28, p. 69): used as food. — Purslane, Portulaca 
oleracea (20, p. 197): used as medicine. — Rye (12, p. 11): cultivated 
as food. — parilla, Panax ginseng (23, p. 34): used as medicine. 
Sassafras (23, p. 34) : roots used as a blood purifier. — Snakeroot (5, 
p. 235): fern snakeroot carried in the shot pouch as a remedy for 
snake bite. — Squashes (28, p. 69): used as food. — St. Andrew's 
cross (5, p. 235): used for snake bite. — Strawberries (13, p. 11): 
used as food. 
Huron. 
38, p. 13): cultivated as food. — Birch (13, p. 73): white 
birch bark used to cover lodges. — Blackberries (33, p. 143) : used as 
