camass

Both the pion and the camass are largely utilized even at the present day for food by the Indians.

The Natives along the River now are generally employed curing salmon and collecting camass.

For "quamash" read "camass," an edible root much prized by the Nez Perces then and now.

They were cooked elaborately in pits, care being taken to avoid the poisonous bulbs of the Death Camass, which resemble them.

Camass, ka-mas′, n. a small plant growing in the north-western United States, also its nutritious bulb.