[6-§] Nicolas de Leon, Camino del Cielo, fol. 111 (Mexico, 1611).
[7-*] Paso y Troncoso, in Anales del Museo Nacionàl de Mexico, Tom. iii, p. 180.
[7-†] Sahagun, Historia de Nueva España, Lib. x, cap. 29, and Lib. xi, cap. 7. Hernandez has the following on the mysterious properties of this plant: “Illud ferunt de hac radice mirabile (si modo fides sit vulgatissimæ inter eos rei habendæ), devorantes illam quodlibet prsæsagire prædicereque; velut an sequenti die hostes sint impetum in eos facturi? Anne illos felicia maneant tempora? Quis supellectilem, aut aliud quidpiam furto subripruerit? Et ad hunc modum alia, quibus Chichimecæ hujusmodi medicamine cognoscendis.” Franciscus Hernandus, Historia Plantarum Novæ Hispaniæ, Tom. iii, p. 71 (Ed., Madrid, 1790).
[7-‡] Diccionario Universal, Appendice, Tom. i, p. 360 (Mexico, 1856).
[8-*] Confessionario Mayor y Menor en lengua Mexicana, fol. 8, verso (Mexico, 1634).
[8-†] Vetancurt, Teatro Mexicano, Trat. iii, cap. 9.
[8-‡] Hernandez, Historia Plantarum Novæ Hispaniæ, Tom. iii, p. 32.
[9-*] Dr. Jacinto de la Serna, Manual de Min stros de Indios para el Conocimiento de sus Idolatrias y Extirpacion de Ellas, p. 163. This interesting work was composed about the middle of the seventeenth century by a Rector of the University of Mexico, but was first printed at Madrid, in 1892, from the MS. furnished by Dr. N. Leon, under the editorship of the Marquis de la Fuensanta del Valle.
[9-†] MSS. of the Licentiate Zetina, and Informe of Father Baeza in Registro Yucateco, Tom. i.
[10-*] Acosta, De la Historia Moral de Indias, Lib. v, cap. 26.