Volume 4 No. 6 
MUHLENBERGIA 
LIBRARY 
A. A. HELLER, Editor ace vome 
Te BOTANICAL 
RENO, NEVADA, DECEMBER 12, 1908 GARDEN. 
A FLOWERING SEASON IN THE MOUNTAINS OF 
ARIZONA 
By J. C. BLUMER 
No part of the Chiricahua mountains of southeastern Ari- 
zona affords the remarkable floral development, in the number 
of its flowering species, as well as in the number, size, and show- 
iness of its individuals, as does Barfoot Park. This tract of 
about 160 acres of rolling topography and andesite soil lies at 
an altitude of 8000 feet, surrounded by mountains on every side 
except the west. Within the last five or six years the forest of 
Pinus arizonica that covered it has suffered removal by the axe 
and saw. ‘This fact is probably responsible for the unusually 
luxuriant flowering and fruiting of the hosts of plants, almost 
altogether herbaceous perenuials, that this highly attractive spot 
offers to the eye of the visiting naturalist. 
Upwards of 150 species were collected in flower and fruit at 
this station in 1906 and 1907. It becomes the type locality for 
two new species in A//zonza, and one each in the genera Seneczo 
and Lupinus, and practically so for a new Azbes, while unde- 
scribed members of Pinaropappus, Hypopitys, and Geranium 
were also gathered here. 
It shall be the purpose of this sketch to enumerate a few of 
the more striking members of this plant community, to indicate 
the principal flower colors, to serve as a floristic outline for the 
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