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Updated: May 13, 2025
He mentions, however, as did my friend, the Indian girl, that those splendid flowers, the Wickapee and the root of the Wake-Robin, afford valuable medicines. Here, as in the case of the Lobelia, nature has blazoned her drug in higher colors than did ever quack doctor. He observes some points of resemblance between the Indians and Tartars, but they are trivial, and not well considered.
In Chicago I first saw the beautiful prairie flowers. They were in their glory the first ten days we were there "The golden and the flame-like flowers." The flame-like flower I was taught afterwards, by an Indian girl, to call "Wickapee;" and she told me, too, that its splendors had a useful side, for it was used by the Indians as a remedy for an illness to which they were subject.
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