THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
Vor. XXXV. January, IQOI. No. 409. 
PLANTS USED BY THE INDIANS OF EASTERN 
NORTH AMERICA. 
LUCIA SARAH CHAMBERLAIN. 
THE following list of plants used by the North-American 
Indians inhabiting the country east of the Mississippi River was 
compiled during a course given to students of Radcliffe College 
in 1899-1900, at the Peabody Museum, by Dr. Frank Russell 
of the Department of American Archaeology and Ethnology of 
Harvard University. 
The linguistic groups of Indians included in this article are 
two: the Algonquian, the greatest family: group and most 
prominent at the time of the settlement of the country by the 
whites; and the Iroquoian, who by their efficient organization 
became very powerful in the midst of the Algonquian country. 
The arrangement of tribes under linguistic groups is that 
followed by the Report of the Bureau of Ethnology at Wash- 
ington, D.C., for 1885-1886. The material was gleaned from 
the Harvard College Library, the Boston Public Library, 
the Boston Athenzeum, the Cambridge Public Library, and the 
libraries of the Museum of Comparative Zoólogy and of the 
Peabody Museum. 
