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these Maize, the distinctive product of the United 
States, will ever link us with the vanishing Indian. 
It will be noticed that only Puccoon, Cohosh, Pip- 
sissewa, Hackmatack, and Yucca are names of flower- 
ing plants ; of these Yucca is the only one generally 
known. I am glad our stately native trees, Tupelo, 
Hickory, Catalpa, bear Indian names. 
A curious example of persistence, when so much 
else has perished, is found in the word “ Kiskatomas," 
the shellbark nut. This Algonquin word was heard 
everywhere in the state of New York sixty years 
ago, and is not yet obsolete in families of Dutch 
descent who still care for the nut itself. 
We could very well have preserved many Indian 
names, among them Hiawatha's 
“ Beauty of the springtime. 
The Miskodeed in blossom,” 
I think Miskodeed a better name than Claytonia or 
Spring Beauty. The Onondaga Indians had a sug- 
gestive name for the Marsh Marigold, “ It-opens- 
the-swamps,” which seems to show you the yellow 
stars “ shining in swamps and hollows gray." The 
name Cowslip has been transferred to it in some 
localities in New England, which is not strange 
when we find that the flower has fifty-six English 
folk-names ; among them are Drunkards, Crazy 
Bet, Meadow-bright, Publicans and Sinners, Sol- 
diers’ Buttons, Gowans, Kingcups, and Buttercups. 
Our Italian street venders call them Buttercups. In 
erudite Boston, in sight of Boston Common, the 
beautiful Fringed Gentian is not only called, but 
