BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Drink Plants of the North American Indians. 
By Dr. V. Havarp, U, S. A. 
These plants may be considered under three heads :— 
Ist. Those yielding alcoholic liquors. ni) 
2d. Those yielding stimulating, exhilarating or intoxicating 
Principles other than alcohol. , Bo. sone 
3d. Those furnishing palatable j juices, or, by infusion, yc Ae 
beverages more or less used to quench thirst. oe 
As foreign to my purpose, I shall exclude all plants from which 1 
“ale are prepared only for medicinal uses. 
- Plants yielding alcoholic liquors. 
se authorities substantially agree that American initia : 
north of Mexico, had not acquired the knowledge of preparing 2 
alcoholic drinks at the time of the landing of Columbus, and that, 
Whatever their vices may have been, they were free from that of 
drunkenness, Thus the missionary priest Gabriel Sagard, in D 
History of Canada se after cece — inte : peranc 
- Says: | a. 
a Our savages, in their feasts, are, thank God, free from. 
Misfortune, for they use neither wine, beer nor cider; if ge: 
among them asks for a drink, which very rarely hay pans 
