CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESThRX F.OTANY NO. 16 



of Notholaena sinuata. There are large patches of N. Hookeri. Under 

 almost every rock are long lines of Cheil i hes ....... and Fendleri and 



among these plants grow Pellaea marginata, which forcibly i 

 C. California. One does n- A — 

 Then scattered through the : 



lowing up the canon a few miles we come to permanent cliffs of limestone 

 or quartzite in whose crevices I found Asplenium Trichomanes, which is 

 about balf way between true Trichomanes and the var. incisum which 

 Maxon has called vespertinum. Here also I found Cheilanthes Fendleri. 

 Along, the roadside I also found, near a slip, a single specimen of Achro- 

 anthes porphyrea. It looks almost like the twablade. The farther up the 

 canon ,1 went the less interesting the flora became. All along were scat- 

 ered Lentaurea Americana, acting just like an introduced plant. 



of men for ages Such running water could never be neglected, in this 

 waterless region, by the aborigines. 



•>KnL th T ere W - lS i WUg0n r °"' 1 K '' '' " '"' : '■' '■ tIie track" being' washed out 

 •' '<>; Jamess place now. It is evident that this ran^e was for long a 

 .^at rendesvouz for Apache Indians, and led to the establishment of Fori 

 SrW 3 £ milCS S ° Uth ' ° n the flanks of the ™&- Now every little 

 spring and stream is appropriated by ranchers and we see cultivated fields. 

 it may not be well known that Arizona and New Mexico are subject 



er4er° nS Thi - " ***"«*& in J une and endi »S * Sep- 



tember. This is a continuance of the rail , . m( ° it feath- 



bS "es^f 116 G T nd C ^ n ° n - R d ° eS n0t Seem to extend quite to St 



.: ; v ';: j;;/' r n ;; a j°- , Il!i v^\ the reason for ™y visit in the middle of 



' T L Z h llfornia was as dl 7 as could be. 



ry region that I visit. Throughout 



I \ '7; l ; ", X ; )) M -' o there is no question of the V ' 



oaks where the flora changes < 



:sence of Larrea i 



• iL \JT md ° f the Huach ^a S the trouble is accentu- 



festly 



scattered through the 



oaks. The first 



tore am not prepared to say what j 



■ in the Huachucas, 



