| Among the Iroquois descent was never reckoned through the male line, the stirps being always a woman. |
| The principal characters of the story, belonging to the stirps Muciana, are purely imaginary. |
| Clearly the stirps was important in this case, and its signal reference perhaps marks competition between various families within the larger Medici clan. |
| Some took the additional name from the stirps instead of from the gns, that is, from the cognmen instead of from the nmen. |
