It grows on high, dry land, and increases from
year to year. It is eaten both cooked and raw.
[44] _Rio Tajo_ (or Tagus), a river of Spain and Portugal.
[45]
* * * * "Bees of Trebizond--
Which from the sunniest flowers that glad
With their pure smile the gardens round,
Draw venom forth that drives men mad."
_--Thomas Moore_.
[46] _Skee-skah_--The Wood-duck.
[47] The Crocus. I have seen the prairies in Minnesota spangled with these
beautiful flowers in various colors before the ground was free from
frost. The Dakotas call them "frost-flowers."
[48] The "Sacred Ring" around the Feast of the Virgins is formed by armed
warriors sitting, and none but a virgin must enter this ring. The
warrior who knows is bound on honor, and by old and sacred custom, to
expose and publicly denounce any tarnished maiden who dares to enter
this ring, and his word cannot be questioned--even by the chief. See
_Mrs. Eastman's Dacotah_, p. 64.
[49] Prairie's Pride.--This annual shrub, which abounds on many of the
sandy prairies in Minnesota, is sometimes called "tea-plant,"
"sage-plant," and "red-root willow." I doubt if it has any botanic name.
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