No. 409.] PLANTS USED BY AMERICAN. INDIANS. 5 
Pottawotomi. 
Beans (17, p. 82): used as food. — Maize (17, p. 82): used as 
food. — Melons (17, p. 82): used as food. — Tobacco (17, p. 82): 
leaves smoked. 
Savannan. 
Chinkapin nuts x p. 53): used as food. — Hickory nuts (25, 
P. 53): used as foo 
Sax and Fox. 
Basswood bark (29, p. 126): twine obtained from it to bind rushes, 
— Beans (29, p. 126): used as food. — Cane (14, p. 43): flageolet 
made from it or of two pieces of soft wood hollowed out and fastened 
together by strips of leather. — Corn (29, p. 126): used as food. — 
Gooseberries (14, p. 29) : used as food. — Grapes (14, p. 29) : used as 
food. — Melons (14, p. 44): used as food. — Nettle (29, p. 126): 
twine obtained from the bark. — Onions (4, p. 534): used as food. — 
Pecans (15, p. 20): used as food. — Plums (14, p. 29): used as 
food. — Potatoes (4, p. 534): sweet and white potatoes used as food. 
— Pumpkins (14, p. 41): used as food. — Rushes (29, p. 126): mats 
made from. — Sap pine, Kee-chi-heyja-ka (22, p. 419): a healing gum 
which the Sax and Fox always take with them when they travel. 
Shawnee. 
Apple, meshemenake (2, p. 291): used as food. — Beans, mzsoochethake 
(2, p. 291): used as food. — Indian turnip, ¢-/aw-sho-ga (22, p. 413): 
used with spikenard and wild licorice. — Maize (19, p. 14): used as 
food. — Melons, »s£e/oma£e (2, p. 291): used as food. — Nuts, pacami 
(2, p. 291): used as food. — Onions, shekagosheke (2, p. 291): used 
as food. — Peaches (40, p. 17): used as food. — Peas (19, p. 14): 
several kinds used as food. — Potatoes, meashethake (2, p. 291) : used 
as food. — Pumpkins, wadego (2, p. 291) : used as food. — Squashes 
(40, p. 17): used as food. — Tobacco (40, p. 57): leaves smoked. — 
Wheat, cawasgue (2, p. 291): used as food. 
IROQUOIAN FAMILY. 
Iroquois. the adaptation of the Iroquois word 
hiro, used to tnde a speech, and oné, an exclamation. 
(Charlevoix.) 
