William Edwin Safford (December 14, 1859, Chillicothe, Ohio – January 10, 1926) was a United States botanist, ethnologist, and educator employed by the U.S. Navy and federal government.
In practice, however, Leary delegated day-to-day administrative and judicial duties to Safford, indicating his preference to directly govern only in emergency situations.
The resulting volume, published as The Useful Plants of the Island of Guam (Contributions from the United States National Herbarium Vol.
[1] He became interested in peyote[2][3][4] and more generally in all the American psychoactive plants known at that time,[5] and he carried out specific studies on daturas, both of an ethnobotanical nature[6] than botanical and taxonomic.
), and the identification of teonanácatl from ancient texts with peyote, while this Nahuatl name referred to species of hallucinogenic mushrooms (Safford, 1915, op.cit.).