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In the accompanying illustration (fig. 6) the 10-angled corolla of 

 Datura meteloides is shown, together with the 5-angled Datura metel 

 of the Old World. 



The use of Datura meteloides appears to have been widely spread 

 throughout the southwestern United States. Miss Alice Eastwood, 

 while exploring in southwestern Utah, came upon an abundance 

 of its seeds and seed pods " in the ruins of the ancient people who 

 once filled this land, and guarded every spring with towers of 

 stone." 21 Stephen 

 Powers found the 

 same species used 

 as an intoxicant 

 and hypnotic by 

 the priests and wiz- 

 ards of the Yokuta 

 Indians living on 

 the banks of the 

 Tule River and 

 Lake Tule, Califor- 

 nia ; 22 and the late 

 Edward Palmer, 

 who also encoun- 

 tered it in Califor- 

 nia, states that cer- 

 tain tribes in that 

 State gave it to 

 their young women, 

 to stimulate them 

 in dancing. He also 

 states that an ex- 

 tract from its root 

 is used as an intoxi- 

 cant by Pai Utes. 23 

 Other authorities 



n -i . . , Fig. 6. — Corollas of Datura metel L. and D. meteloides Dunal. 



describe its use by 



the Mariposa Indians of California, including the Noches and 

 Yakuts, already mentioned, in the ceremonial initiation of their 

 youths into manhood; and the custom of the medicine men of the 

 Hualpais, or Walapais, to utter oracular prophecies while intoxi- 

 cated by it. 24 



That this species should have been classed by the Aztecs with the 

 Convolvulaceae, or morning-glories, is not at all surprising. In a 

 recent article, by Willard N. Clute, published in the American 



21 See Zoe, vol. 3. p. 3G0, 1892. 



22 See Contr. N. Am. Ethu., vol. 3, pp. 380 and 428, 1877. 

 a Am. Nat., vol. 12, p. 650, 1878. 



21 See Bourke, John G., " On the Border with Crook," p. 1G5, 1892. 



