STANDLEY — LOCALITIES OF PLANTS FKOM NEW MEXICO. 145 



Under each species in the list, when practicable, are given the 

 type locality, name of collector, type number, and date of collection, 

 and any other data that have seemed important. In addition the 

 writer has attempted to give the accepted name for each species 

 whenever it has been found necessary to transfer it to another genus 

 or when it has been found to be a synonym. Unless otherwise 

 stated, the name listed is, so far as the writer knows, a valid one. 

 No effort has been made to determine whether the numerous names 

 published during the last few years represent good species or not. 



In some cases it has been found impossible to assign any definite 

 part of New Mexico as the source of the specimens upon which a 

 new species was based, but such instances are comparatively few. 

 In Plantae Fendlerianae the localities are given wit It commendable 

 definiteness and in Plantae Wrightianae with almost equal detail. 



Two localities in New Mexico are remarkable for the number of 

 plants described from them, Santa Fe and Santa liita. The reason 

 for this is the fact that the first extensive collections made in the 

 Southwest were made largely at these two places. Although there 

 is hardly a county in New Mexico in which a few new species have 

 not been found, it is not to be inferred that the flora of the Territory 

 has been thoroughly explored and that new plants are no longer to 

 be discovered within its boundaries. This is far from being the case. 

 With but few exceptions the areas that have been best explored are 

 those most easily reached by railroad. In the more remote parts of 

 New Mexico there are hundreds of square miles that have never 

 been visited by any botanical collector. When explored, these will 

 reveal dozens of new plants to swell our list. Even in the best- 

 known regions new plants are continually being found. More col- 

 lecting has been done in the Organ Mountains than in any other 

 part of the Territory, yet a botanist seldom visits them, limited in 

 extent as they are, without rinding something new to their flora. 



The number of plants listed here is 690, a truly remarkable number 

 and one that will be exceeded by but few States. California could 

 furnish a much longer list and doubtless also Colorado and Texas, 

 but probably no other State. It would be interesting for the sake 

 of comparison, aside from other considerations, if such lists could be 

 prepared for other States, especially those of the West, and perhaps 

 for some of the eastern ones or for groups of those which together 

 form homogeneous areas. 



The following data of New Mexican species will be of interest. 

 Doctor Gray has described more than any other author, 173 in all. 

 Doctor Greene has named almost as many, 171; Doctor Engelmann, 

 59; Doctor Torrey, 52; Prof. E. O. Wooton, 42; and Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, 32. There has been hardly a botanist in America engaged 



