FOOTNOTES 
"For the background of the present paper, vide: Schultes, Richard 
Evans: ‘‘Peyote and plants used in the peyote ceremony’’ Bot. Mus. 
Leafl., Harv. Univ., vol. 4, no. 8, Cambridge, April 12, 1937. 
’ The botanical nomenclature of this cactus is as confused as the 
popular names, the result of more than 100 years of taxonomic con- 
troversy. taxonomists are far from agreement at the present time. 
It will be sufficient for the purposes of this paper to mention that, 
since its discovery by Europeans, peyote ( Lophophora Williamsii) has 
been classified under the following names: 
Lophophora Williamsii. (Lemaire) Coulter in Contrib. U. S. Nat. 
Herb., vol. 3, 1894. 
Peyotl sacatecensis Hernandez in De hist. plant. Nov. Hisp., 1638. 
Echinocactus Williamsii Lemaire in Allg. Gartenz., vol. 13, p. 385, 
1845, 
Artocarpus Williamstt Voss in Vilmorin’s Blumengiirtn., p.368,1872. 
Anhalonium Williamsii Lemaire in Foérster’s Handb. Cact., ed. 2, 
p. 233, 1885. 
Anhalonium Lewintt Hennings in Gartenfl., vol. 37, p. 410, 1888. 
Mammillaria Williamsii Coulter in Contrib. U.S, Nat. Herb., vol. 
2, p. 129, 1891. 
Anhalonium runget Hildmann in Monatsehr.f. Kakteenk., vol. 3, p. 
68, 1893. 
Anhalonium subnodusum Hildmann in Monatschr.f. Kakteenk., vol. 
3, p. 68, 1893. 
Lophophora Williamsti lewinti Coulter in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb., 
vol. 3, p. 1381, 1894. 
Anhalonium Jourdanianum Lewin in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesel., vol. 
12, p. 289, 1894, and in Monatschr. f. Kakteenk., vol. 6, p.180, 
1896. 
Mammillaria Lewinti Karsten in Deutsch. Fl., ed, 2, vol. 2, p.457, 
1895, 
Echinocactus Lewinii Hennings in Monatschr. f. Kakteenk., vol.5, 
p. 94, 1895. 
Anhalonium visnagra Hildmann in Monatschr. f. Kakteenk., vol. 6, 
p. 174, 1896. 
Lophophora Williamsii Thompson in Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard., vol. 9, 
p. 133, 1898. 
Echinocactus Jourdanianus Rebut in Monatschr. f. Kakteenk., vol. 
15, p. 122, 1905, 
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