8 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN Botany No. 17 
stipules are found in no other allied species, and it is common. 
Their identification of A. tephrodes showed that they did not know the 
species, for they mixed it with other species with fleshy pods. 
The whole “Flora of New Mexico” shows the same character of being 
done with a lick and a promise that characterizes all of Standley’s work. He 
will not get very far in systematic work until he stops slopping through his 
work, in a mad effort to do a great deal in a very short time. 
BOTANIZING IN TEXAS, 1930 
prairie region. For the only accounts we had were those of the railroad sur- 
veys and of Lindheimer. Later on Havard had done some work along the 
border mountains. I never felt that I could afford the trip till in 1903 
when I went with my son to El Paso and thence to the Sierra Madres of 
northern Mexico. This trip was a very productive one in new species. But 
I did not get east of El Paso. But have had longing eyes for the region 
ever since. I abandoned collecting sets as a regular business in the eighties, 
and devoted my time to a more profitable work in economic geology. It so 
happened that I had two months’ time to spare in 1930, and so I decided to 
employ it on the long-delayed trip to Texas. 
I left Claremont, California April 1st. 1930. I drove to Shaver’s Well, 
California. The next day I drove to Quartzite, Arizona, botanizing on the 
way, particularly at Blythe. The next day I drove to Aquila, a station 
west of Wickenberg, Arizona, where I got considerable stuff. Thence I 
and collected a little. The next day I drove to Phoenix, and the next to Tuc- 
son. Then to the Huachuca mountains in Ramsey Canon where I was last 
year. Then I drove to Lowell a smelter town near Douglas. The next 
day I drove through Douglas and then on to Las Cruces, New Mexico. Then 
south 40 miles to El Paso and then east to Sierra Blanca, Texas. There 
was considerable out in bloom there on the mountain to the west. Then 
drove to Davis Junction where the road forks. I took the lower road east 
instead of going to Pecos, for my destination was the experiment station at 
Sonora, which is some 90 miles north of Del Rio. At Sonora I found that 
the station was 19 miles south on a state ranch. So the next day I drove 
there and remained three days with the men connected with the work. We 
went pretty well over that region studying the vegetation and stock conditions. 
We then took a trip some fifty miles west to a stock ranch to examine con- 
