CONTRIBUTIONS • TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 16 



Texana but it does not seem to warrant varietal rank. There was also 

 Verbesina Wrightii and Gymolomia multiflora. 



After collecting some at Benson and along the way, I reached the 

 malodorous Tombstone, of the long ago. It is now a rambling shack of a 

 town, inhabited by left-overs mostly, and with nothing to remind you of its 

 "glory" in the days of noise and bluster, saloons and fast women. Prohi- 

 bition has taken the starch out of many an old time moral eyesore among 

 the towns of Arizona, and made them more or less decent though dilapi- 

 dated. From here the road, a one-track wagon road, ambles over the hills, 

 and down to another famous old place, Charleston, along the river on the 

 edge of the valley. It is now mostly one house and a few shacks, its 

 glory having departed. Then as one slips along the road over the vast 

 plain, he is taken back in his imagination to the beautiful prairies of Iowa 

 two generations ago, where as far as the eye can reach is grass and beau- 

 tiful flowers. The great north end of the Huachucas looms to the south 

 and the various canons begin to take shape, Miller, Cass and Ramsey 

 canons. Miller canon is the largest and i, a nr^d a:ir kluat.-r with 

 nearly vertical walls at the south which rise up into the Pine belt above 

 the live oaks. Cass Canon is a short and obscure one just to the west of 

 Miller, and then comes Ramsey Canon, a winding and rather sleep ni'iE" 

 going up to the very crest of the range, and having a beautiful stream of 

 water flowing its entire length. This is where Lemmon, some 35 years ago, 

 spent a month botanizing and collected a number of new species, and quite 

 a number of Mexican plants not known to exist in the U. S. before. Some 

 M years ago I spent a week at Fort El lonK the lm 



oaks on the lower flanks of the range and some 20 miles farther south 

 but I did not get into Ramsey Canon. I have Tw-vs d-.ir-l to '•-<>! in •» 



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into the sycamores and walnuts and v >. thai lined 



the creek. At last, several miles up, I came to Tame*'* re or* w; -.■■', th - 



is an orchard and summer , t Wond is 



Brenners, another resort, . '^n was ^00 



eet above the sea, but still in the Tropical life zone The v, -Eh of 



smr Jurats . ^stjs 



rttSf-oMtt- sum 



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' often nearly three feet long, glacuous-green, flatt 



covered with the reflexed I 



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