New information about the supposed narcotic puffballs and two cases of intoxication with Scleroderma in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.1975.2.444Abstract
Following che report of Heim and Wasson about the narcotic effects of two
species o£ puffballs in San Miguel Progreso, State of Oaxaca the authors of
this paper conducted research in that región in order to corrobórate Heim
& Wasson's information. The authors concluded that the pufl'balls reponed
by Heim & Wasson are neither narcotic ñor toxic, but edible. They found
eight species of fungí identified as good, by Agapito, the man who gave to
Heim and Wasson the information of the hallucinogenic properties of the
puffballs. All the fungí identified by Agapito are of the Lycoperdaceae group
and belong to the following species: Astraeus hygr orne tTÍ cus (Pers.) Morg.,
Lycoperdon candidum Pers. (— /,. marginaturn Vitt., I,, cruciatum Rostk.),
L. oblongiosporum B. & C., L. rimulatum Peck, llhizopogon sp., Vascellum
ciirtisii (Berk.) Kreis., V. intermedinm Sniith (= V. criiciatuin sensu Ponce
de León), V. pratense (Pers. emend. Quél.) Kreis. and V. qudenii (Bottom.)
Ponce de León (= Lycoperdon mixtecorum Heim!). All these fungi are called
by Agapito "hongos de primera clase", "hongos de segunda clase", "hongos
de tercera clase" or "jitamo-real", and all are good for divinatory purposes,
according to this person. Heim and Wasson only report L. niarginatum and
L. mixtecorum as the fungí considerad by Agapito as good for divinatory purpose.
Another fungus identified by the authors as Scleroderma verritcoswn
Pers., and by Agapito as a divinatory fungus, and called by him "jitamo-real de
venado" was picked by Agapito in the zone of Ometepec, State of Guerrero.
This caused a gastrointestinal intoxication in Romano and Panlagua after each
one liad eaten one specimen of this fungus. The intoxication with Scleroderma
is the first case reported in México and the first known in S. verrucosum, but
the fourth case known in Scleroderma (S. cepa Pers. and 5. ureolatum Ehrenb.
provoked three intoxications in U. S. and Canadá). The eleventh species collected
at San Miguel Progreso was Agrocybe semiorbicularis (Bull. ex St. Amans)
Fay. an Agaric not hallaucinogenic, and not toxic, that is couníounded by the
people of the región with Psilocybe mexicana Heim, an hallucinogenic species
that is verv similar.
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