. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). 52 HERBS Grass Oak MCF CCF Wash. Ore. Calif. W. Can. Oak CCF MCF Wash. Ore. Calif. Stems were eaten; roots boiled and eaten with meat. Sometimes the plant was boiled and added as a thickening agent to manzanita cider. One variety was used for inflammatory rheumatism (pro- bably Asclepias cryptoceras, which has very broad leaves with sudden, sharp points). The juice was used as healing application to cuts and wounds, also used for tattooing. Milk applied to warts, supposed
. Common edible and useful plants of the West. Plants, Edible -- West (U. S. ); Botany, Economic; Botany -- West (U. S. ). 52 HERBS Grass Oak MCF CCF Wash. Ore. Calif. W. Can. Oak CCF MCF Wash. Ore. Calif. Stems were eaten; roots boiled and eaten with meat. Sometimes the plant was boiled and added as a thickening agent to manzanita cider. One variety was used for inflammatory rheumatism (pro- bably Asclepias cryptoceras, which has very broad leaves with sudden, sharp points). The juice was used as healing application to cuts and wounds, also used for tattooing. Milk applied to warts, supposed to entirely cure them. H-41. SKUNK WEED, Kavarre- tia squarrosa^ Phlox Fam. 2"-20" high herb with white woolly leaves, about 1" long, coarsely divided; flowers pale blue or purple in ter-/^. minal heads; foliage has strong odor. Indians gathered seeds in late summer, dried and stored them. To prepare them for eating, they would parch and pulverize the seeds and eat them dry. Other species of Navarretia may have same odor and be used in same '^ ways. White Navarretia, N. leuco- cephala (white flowers and with white or reddish-streaked stems), was boiled and decoction put on swel- lings, H-42. GRAND HOUND'S TONGUE, Cynoglossum grande, Borage Fam, A medium-sized plant, 1-3' tall; leaves mostly basal and blue to lavender flow- ers are funnelform on ter- minal panicles. Its leaves have a disagreeable taste ,and the burs stick to stock. Dioscorides says (in regard to the genus): "the leaves boiled in wine and salt applied to bruises, or juice boiled in hog lard cures falling hair; same. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sweet, Muriel. Healdsburg, Calif. : Naturegraph Co.
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