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Sandia Mountains. Altitude, 3,120 meters. F5. 



A range about 12 miles east of Albuquerque in northeastern Ber- 

 nalillo and southeastern Sandoval counties. Doctor Bigelow gathered 

 a considerable number of plants here in 1853, Dr. C. L. Herrick 

 botanized here in 1S97 and 1898, and Miss Charlotte Ellis in the last 

 few years has collected a few plants about Placitas. 



Achillea laxiflora. Opuntia sphaerocar pa. 



Aster bigelovii. Pentstemon whippleanus. 



Clematis bigelovii. Primula ellisiae. 



Gentiana bigelovii. Telraneuris trinervata. 



Opuntia cymochila montana. Vilfa trieholepis. 

 Opuntia missouriensis trichophora. 



San Miguel. Altitude, 1,800 meters. H4, 



A very old Mexican settlement on the Rio Pecos in southwestern 

 San Miguel County, visited by Fendler in 1847. 



Calliandra herbacea. Jlymenopappus jlavescens. 



Santa Antonita. 



I have not been able to locate this point definitely; I find no men- 

 tion of it in Whipple's Report. It must have been near Albuquerque, 

 for Bigelow reached that settlement on October 3 and remained there 

 until November, and we find that the plants collected at Santa 

 Antonita were collected in October. 



Actinella leptoclada. Liguslicum scopulorum. 



Deweya acaulis. 



Santa Barbara. Altitude, about 1,185 meters. E10. 



A Mexican settlement on the Rio Grande about 25 miles north of 

 Las Cruces, visited by Wright. 



Layia neomexicana. 



Santa Fe. Altitude, 2,105 meters. G4. 



The capital of New Mexico, in Santa Fe County; one of the oldest 

 towns in the United States. This is historically the most interesting 

 locality in the Southwest from a botanical standpoint, for here was 

 made the first extensive collection of plants in the whole southwestern 

 region. 



The first botanical collector to visit the place, ana 1 the first botanist 

 to collect in New Mexico, was William Gambel, who passed through 

 Santa Fe in 1841 or 1842 on his way to California. His collections 

 were described by Thomas Nuttall. Doctor Wislizenus, on his way 

 to Mexico, visited the place in 1846 and collected a few plants here. 

 But it was not until 1847 that the ground was at all thoroughly worked 

 over in this now historic locality. August Fendler came from St. 

 Louis over the Santa Fe trail in the autumn of 1846 and arrived at 

 Santa Fe about October 11. His arrival was too late to allow any 

 collecting that season, but he began early in the spring of 1847. 



