[5-*] _Historia de las Indias Occidentales_, Dec. iv, Lib. viii, cap. 4.
[5-[+]] More especially it is the territory of the Chorti dialect, spoken to this day in the vicinity of the famous ancient city of Copan, Honduras. Cerquin lies in the mountains nearly due east of this celebrated site. On the Chorti, see Stoll, _Zur Ethnographie der Republik Guatemala_, pp. 106-9.
[6-*] Bernardino de Sahagun, _Historia de la Nueva España_, Lib. x, cap. 9.
[6-[+]] Derived from _teciuhtlaza_, to conjure against hail, itself from _teciuh_, hail. Alonso de Molina, _Vocabulario Mexicano_, sub voce.
[6-[++]] Bautista, _Advertencias para los Confesores_, fol. 112 (Mexico, 1600).
[6-§] Nicolas de Leon, _Camino del Cielo_, fol. 111 (Mexico, 1611).
[7-*] Paso y Troncoso, in _Anales del Museo Nacionàl[TN-7] 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[TN-8] 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.
