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Inquire for wholesale pricing. Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. All advertising and advertised products void where prohibited. JODY HORD, 1430 WILLAMETTE STREET, PMB 4, EUGENE, OR 97401, USA VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 3 AUTUMNAL EQUINOX 1999 VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 3 AUTUMNAL EQUINOX 1999 PAULET, J.J. 1793. Traité des Champignons, 2 Vol. TONOLO, A. 1965. “Sul probabile significato della presenza di alcaloidi negli sclerozi naturali di Claviceps paspali,” Giorn.Bot.It., Fly Agaric, Flies, and Toads: A New Hypothesis RAMSBOTTOM, J. 1953. Mushrooms and Toadstools. COLLINS. 72: 27–30. From the forthcoming Italian book Animals that Take Drugs by GIORGIO SAMORINI RÄTSCH, C. 1998. Enzyklopädie der psychoaktiven Pflanzen. AT VERLAG. VAL G., E.F., undated. Conversaciones con María Sabina y Otros Curanderos: Hongos Sagrados. PUBLICACIONES CRUZ O. RAYNAL, G. 1996. “Présence en France de Claviceps paspali Stev. et Animals take drugs. This is an undeniable fact that has been in progress). SIEGEL comes to the same conclusion, albeit by Hall sur Paspalum distichum L. et de l’ergotisme correspondant sur VALDÉS III, L.J.J. 1983. The Pharmacognosy of Salvia divinorum Epling repeatedly confirmed by animal behavior studies. Some years a different route. le bètail,” Cryptog.Mycol., 17(1): 21–31. & Játiva-M: An Investigation of Ska María Pastora. Dissertation ago, SIEGEL (1989) gathered together many instances of such towards Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. behavior. At present, I am writing a book on the instances We already know that hundreds of natural species display REISFIELD, A.S. 1993. “The Botany of Salvia divinorum (Labiatae),” observed up to the present in an attempt to explain them in this trait (including, surprisingly, lower-order species such SIDA 15(3): 349–366. VALDÉS III, L.J. 1994. “Salvia divinorum and the unique diterpene hallucinogen, salvinorin (divinorin) A,” Journal of Psychoactive terms of what the biological literature refers to as the “PO as insects). Certain hawkmoth species—small nocturnal REKO, B.P. 1996 (1919; Translation by J. OTT). On Aztec Botanical Drugs 26(3): 277–283. factor” or “de-patterning factor.” moths—have developed a long proboscis to draw in the nec- Names. VERLAG FÜR WISSENSCHAFT UND BILDUNG. tar of a Jimson weed species. In Arizona, the Manduca VALDÉS III, L.J.J. 1999. Personal communication. In brief, we may note that all living species (including plant quinquemaculata hawkmoth feeds on the nectar of Datura SAHAGÚN, B. 1963 (Translation by C.E. DIBBLE & A.J.O. ANDERSON). life) are endowed with a set of primary functions necessary meteloides DC. ex DUNAL (= D. innoxia MILLER). By doing so it Florentine Codex. General History of the Things of New Spain: Book VALDÉS III, L.J. et al. 1983. “Ethnopharmacology of Ska María Pas- for survival (nutrition, reproduction). However, this is not aids the pollination of the flowers. Only after repeated ob- 11—Earthly Things. THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS. tora (Salvia divinorum Epling and Játiva-M.),” Journal of Ethnophar- sufficient. If a species is to preserve itself over time, it must servation of the behavior of this species was it noticed by macology 7(3): 287–312. be capable of evolving by modifying and adapting itself to some researchers that this hawkmoth appeared to be intoxi- SAMORINI, G. 1997. “The ‘mushroom-tree’ of Plaincourault,” Eleusis its incessantly changing environment. Apart from the rare cated by the nectar. This was in fact anything but obvious. 8: 29–37. (Edited by G. SAMORINI.) VALDÉS III, L.J. et al. 1984. “Divinorin A, a psychotropic terpenoid, cases of “living fossils,” species that do not evolve will finally Firstly, observation took place by night when the plant’s co- and divinorin B from the hallucinogenic Mexican mint Salvia succumb. This is why each living species must also possesses rolla opens. The main tasks of the botanists and entomolo- SAMORINI, G. 1999. “A contribution to the discussion of the psy- divinorum,” Journal of Organic Chemistry 49(24): 4716–4720. chopharmacology of the Eleusinian Mysteries,” Yearb. Ethnomed. an “evolutionary function” that is based, biologists believe, gists who took the trouble to sit up all night beside these St.