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The Journal of Heredity 



LOPIIOPHORA WILLIAIMSII 



Typical form' with defined ribs. Photograph of specimen in the Cactus House of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, collected in 1910, on the Hacienda de Cedros, near Mazapil, 

 state of Zacatccas, Mexico, by Dr. Elswood Chaffey. Photogra])h natural size. (Fig. 7.) 



but instead of the cxcitinj^^ effect of the 

 latter, Lojjhophora ])roduces rather a 

 state of ideal content, with no tendency 

 to commit acts of violence. 



A detailed account of the exix'riments 

 of Drs. Prentiss and Morj^an was inib- 

 li?hcd in the Therapeutic Gazette of 

 September 16, 1895, p]). 580-585.22 



CEREMONIAL USE HV THE INDIANS 



The first to brinj^ to jmblic notice the 

 ceremonial use of this narcotic by 

 cxistinj^ tribes of Indians was James 



*' Sec also Prentiss and Morgan. 

 20:4. 1896. 



Alooney of the Bureati of American 

 Ethnoloji;y, in a pajjcr read before the 

 Anthropolo<,ncal Society of Washiuiijton 

 on November 3, 1891. His attention 

 had been directed to it while making 

 investigations amonj.,^ tlie Kiowas, who 

 are descendants of one of the tribes 

 known to the Aztecs by the name of 

 "Chichimecas." Mr. Mooney found that 

 these Indians attribute divine powers 

 to the drug and the- ceremony attending 

 its use is of the nature of a religious rite 



"TlHTai)cutic uses of Mescal Buttons." Thcrap. Gazette 



