562 Wooton : Localities visited by Wright 



field notes and numbers, and by the kindness of Dr. Robinson I 

 was permitted to copy them. They did not give me all the in- 

 formation I wanted (because the distribution numbers were not the 

 same as the collection numbers) but they did set my mind at rest 

 upon a few major points. These points are as follows : 



1. Practically all of the plants of the 1849 collection were 

 gathered in what is now the state of Texas. Wright may have 

 entered what is now New Mexico on the return journey between 

 October- 12 and October 20, but this is quite doubtful, since the 

 party apparently went down the river to San Elezario * and then 



turned eastward. 



2. The plants obtained on the 185 1 trip were mostly collected 

 in New Mexico (about Santa Rita),f though all the time from 

 September 2 to October 4 was spent on a trip through southeast- 

 ern Arizona and northeastern Sonora. 



3. Nearly all the plants collected in 1852 were obtained in 

 Texas. He made a ten days trip to Lakes Gusman and Santa 

 Maria in northern Chihuahua, and another of four or five days to 

 Fort Filmore and the Organ Mountains, in southern New Mexico. 



A new difficulty arises here, since the specimens of the 185 1 

 and 1852 collections were sent out under the same printed label 

 and it is not possible to tell which specimens were collected each 

 year. 



Some of the sheets of Wright's plants in Herb. Gray have 

 Wright's collection numbers penciled on them by Dr. Gray, and 

 I have had the ambition for years to run through that herbarium 

 and correlate these with the distribution numbers as thoroughly as 

 possible, but have never had the time nor the opportunity. I have 

 been able to make such a correlation in regard to a few species, 

 thanks to the kindness of Dr. Robinson. 



It has occurred to me that a list of the places visited and the 

 dates on which he was there might be of service to others as it has 

 been to myself, and such a list is here appended in the hope of its 

 being welcome to some workers. This list was compiled from the 

 notes using Wright's phraseology (and spellings) in the main. 

 Where possible I have combined dates applying to a single locality. 



* Map of Mex. Bound. Survey says " San Elceario." Rand and McNally map of 



Texas, and other recent maps, say "San Elizario." 



f Santa Rita del Cobre, the "Cobre" or " Copper Mines" of Wright's notes. 



