Grass, “sleepy

S. vaseyi (sleepy grass) (Poaceae) Festuca arundinacea (tall fescue) (Poaceae) infected with fungus Acremonium coenophialum... 

Argyreia spp., Ipomoea argyrophylla, I. tricolor, Rivea corumbosa (Convolvulaceae) [drug ololiuqui], Stipa robusta, S. vaseyi (sleepy grass) (Poaceae) Festuca arundinacea (tall fescue) (Poaceae) infected with fungus Acremonium coenophialum... 

Sleepy grass (stipa robusta) is a coarse perennial range grass which is native to Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. It has an infamous reputation in this section of the country because of its effect on livestock, particularly horses ... 

The active principle in sleepy grass has been identified at last, in the December, 1992 issue of Discover magazine a recent study is mentioned in which Stipa robusta has been found to contain D-ly-sergic acid amide. Interestingly, the alkaloid is actually produced by Acremonium> a symbiotic fungu living within the plant s tissues. So closely have the two... 

D-Lysergic Acid Amide (Morning Glories and Sleepy Grass)... 

There have been recent reports of a wholly new source of lysergic acid amides. The so called Sleepy Grass (Stipa robusta) of the desert areas of the American West is reported to have an alkaloid content approaching that of ergot, and should be a good source of raw material to feed into acid production. See Discover magazine, Dec. 92. 

Attention step As you came to class this morning, what did you see I m usually too sleepy to see anything when I walk to a 7 30 a.m. class, but my nervousness over this speech made me alert this morning. I saw beer cans all over the grass. I saw paper cups floating down the campus stream. I saw toilet paper hanging from the trees. 

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