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The Journal of Heredity 



DEEK-IIOOF CACTUS 



Ariocarpus kotsciiuheyanus, ii plant witli 

 supjwsed magic propiTties, highly 

 prized by Indians of northern Alex- 

 ico, who declare that if the hunter 

 wears this cactus (here shown 

 natural size), the deer can not run 

 away from him. It probably owes 

 this prestige to the resemblance of 

 its tubercles to the hoofs of a deer. 

 (Fig. 5.) 



FRUIT AND FLOWER 



Flower of Lophophora -williamsii (at the 

 rightjwith rose-tinted petals, issuing 

 from a tuft of hairs, while the fruit 

 (shown at the left) is pink or crim- 

 son. Drawing natural size. (Fig. 6.) 



alonj^ the valley of the Rio Grande, 

 from the mouth of the Pecos River 

 south-eastward, to southern Queretaro, 

 Mexico. Definite localities in which 

 ])lants have been c(jllected are the 

 following : 



Texas. — Mouth of the Pecos River, 

 William Lloyd; vicinity of Laredo, 

 Mrs. Anna B. Nickels (s])ecimens now 

 j^rowinj^ in the cactus house of the 

 U. S. Dejxirtment of Aj^M-iculturc) ; near 

 Ojuclos, C. Ochoa (dried specimens in 



'" Sec SafTord, W. E., "Cactaccac of Northeastern ;ind Central Mexii-o,' 

 for 1908, p. .528 pi. 3, fig. 5. 1909. 



the form of '"mescal buttons" in the 

 economic collection of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture) ; near Aguilares 

 (specimens sent by parcel post to the 

 Menominee Indians, now in possession 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry). 



Tamaulipas. — In the vicinity of Nuevo 

 Laredo, Mrs. Anna B. Nickels; near 

 Camargo, south shore of the Rio 

 Grande at the mouth of the Rio San 

 Juan, E. A. Goldman, of the U. S. 

 Biological Survey. 



Nuevo Leon.- — Vicinity of Monterrey, 

 Professor Emilio Rodriguez, (specimens 

 growing in the cactus garden of the 

 Colegio Civil, at Monterrey).'^ 



Coahuila. — Ccrro del Pueblo, near 

 Saltillo, Dr. Edward Palmer (living 

 plants in cactus house, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture; dried i)lants in economic 

 collection). 



Chihuahua. — Near Jimenez, in the 

 Sierra de Amole (locality in which the 

 Tarahumari Indians collect their sup- 

 ply for ceremonial purjjoses) ; near 

 Santa Rosalia de Camargo, in the 

 vSierra de Amargosa (also visited by the 

 collecting expeditions of the Tarahumari 

 Indians, as stated by Lumholtz). 



San Luis Potosi. — Vicinity of Real de 

 Catorce as cited by Diguet (locality 

 whence the Huichol Indians obtain 

 their supi)ly). 



Zacatecas. — Vicinity of Ccdros, near 

 Mazapil, near northern boundary. Pro- 

 fessor F. E. Lloyd and Dr. E. Chaff ey 

 (living plants in the cactus house of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture; 

 also dried specimens from the market 

 of the city of Zacatecas in the economic 

 collection). 



Queretaro. — Near Higuerillos, not far 

 from the city of Queretaro, Dr. J . N. 

 Rose (specimen in cactus house of the 

 Department of Agriculture). 



CHE.MICAL HISTORY OF THE DRl'G 



Attention was called to the use of 

 this plant as an intoxicant by the 

 Indians by Mrs. Anna B. Nickels of 

 Laredo, Texas, who collected material 

 for Parke, Davis and Co., of Detroit. 

 Michigan, and for other wholesale 

 dealers in drugs. Mrs. Nickels sug- 



in Smithsonian Report 



