In the cases of Anhalonium visnagra, A. rungei, and A. subnodusum, 
the plants were described, but not figured. The descriptions leave 
little doubt but that the plants were different forms of Lophophora 
Williamsii (3). 
® The following synonyms of Ariocarpus retusus appear in the litera- 
ture as additional peyote-cactuses: Anhalonium prismaticum Lem., 
Mammillaria prismatica Hemsl., Cactus prismaticus Kuntze, Anhalonium 
Surfuraceum Coult., Mammillaria furfuracea S.Wats., Anhalonium pul- 
villigerum Lem., and Anhalonium elongatum Salm-Dyck. 
4m: « 
This plant is unknown. 
” Augustin Hunt y Cortes, author of this etymology, also gives 
. e a ee A . 
epeyoni the significance of  child’® (20). 
“ » 
3 . , . ee r 
° Siméon (31) defines peyot/ or peyutl as: ‘‘Plante dont la racine ser- 
vait a fabriquer une boisson qui tenait lieu de vin; cocon de ver a soie; 
pericarde, enveloppe du coeur. ”’ 
7 Hernandez (8) used this word as a name for a plant characterized 
by a particularly strong odor, which he described under the title: De 
Yauhtli. 
Spinden (32) gives to guayule the entirely different meaning of 
eé » . s r . . . . 
old-fashioned rubber.’’ This he derives from an etymology in which 
66 ‘ Mera: 6 
the word hue or guay (“‘old’’) and the word ulli (‘‘rubber’’) are com- 
bined to form guayule. 
” Sophophora secundiflora contains a narcotic alkaloid (cytisine) cap- 
able of rendering a person unconscious for long periods. For a detailed 
account of mescal beans (Sophora secundiflora and Erythrina spp.) con- 
sult the reference in footnote 1. 
) . . a . 
" Dry whiskey is also erroneously applied to Ariocarpus fissuralus 
(Engelm.) K. Schum. 
"Tt is recorded (10) that, during the Civil War, a group of Texas 
Rangers were captured, and, due to food shortage, came near starva- 
tion. They were saved by Indian friends who smuggled mescal but- 
tons in to them. The captives used the buttons for food, calling them 
’ 
ee . . ° . “ype oe 
white mule,’’ a name which has survived for Lophophora Williamsii 
in rural parts of Texas. 
” Reko (17) points out philologically that teonanacatl means ‘‘di- 
vine food of a soft or fleshy nature.’’ In this light, it is difficult to 
see how the term ever could have referred to the corky, though suc- 
culent, peyote, much less to hard, brittle mescal buttons. 
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