Note 25 — XIII. A USE OF POISONOUS FUNGI QUITE PROBABLY EXISTED AMONG THE MEXICANS.

But on the sixth day of the moon’s age “women walk in the forests with a fan in one hand, and eat certain vegetables, in hope of beautiful children. See the account given by Pliny of the Druidical mistletoe or viscum, which was to be gathered when the moon was six days old, as a preservative from sterility.”—(Sir William Jones in “Asiatic Researches,” Calcutta, 1790, vol. iii. art. 12, p. 284, quoted by Edward Moor, “Hindu Pantheon,” London, 1810, p. 134.)