A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW MEXICAN BOTANY. 



By Paul C. Standley. 



INTRODUCTION. 



This paper has been prepared to give the student of New Mexican 

 botany the obvious advantages of a special bibliography. Since no 

 general flora of the Territory has been compiled, the results of the 

 work of various earlier investigators are available only in scattered 

 publications, some of them of such a character that they would not 

 ordinarily be referred to. A reasonably complete bibliography 

 will prevent oversights and save the labor of long and sometimes 

 fruitless search. 



A bibliography of Xew Mexican botany was suggested by the 

 examination of a similar paper recently published in the University 

 of Colorado Studies listing the literature of the plant life of that 

 State. Several such lists of botanical papers had been published 

 earlier, like those of Mr. C. V. Piper in his Flora of Washington and 

 of Mr. J. W. Blankinship in the Montana Agricultural College 

 Science Studies, but none that the writer lias seen is so compre- 

 hensive as this more recent one. Piper lists but 54 titles and Blank- 

 inship still fewer, while for Colorado more than 500 publications are 

 cited as dealing more or less directly with the flora of that State. 

 The titles of the Colorado list cover a wide range of subjects, while 

 those of the earlier ones were confined chiefly if not entirely to 

 taxonomic botany. 



The present paper is modeled upon that compiled for Colorado 

 with certain modifications. The latter includes many titles useful 

 only in ecological study, like those dealing with the meteorology 

 and geology, and with the soils of the State. No such papers are 

 entered here, because practically no work in plant ecology has been 

 done in New Mexico, and it would require a specialist to select the 

 publications that would be of use in that line of investigation. 



The list is made up primarily of the works dealing with taxonomic 

 botany, especially those in which new species are described from 

 New Mexican material. Some definite references to New Mexican 



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