NO. 17 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQ16 577 
During the three weeks spent in Lee County, about 700 specimens 
of plants were collected, representing some 500 species. Many of 
them are plants of rare occurrence, and some represent notable 
extensions of range, one, at least, being an addition to the known 
flora of the United States. One of the lichens was determined by 
Mr. G. Kk. Merrill as a new species, and some of the parasitic fungi 
are of unusual interest. 
During August and September Mr. Standley was detailed for 
field-work in New Mexico. He spent four weeks at Ute Park, 
Colfax County, a locality in the southern extension of the Sangre 
Fic. 59—Ute Park, N. Mex. Showing sandstone hillsides covered with 
pinyon and cedar. 
de Cristo Range of Colorado, and only a few miles south of the 
Colorado boundary. 
Ute Park lies at an altitude of about 7,500 feet upon the Cimarron 
River, one of the characteristic swift, clear streams of the Rockies. 
The valley here is rather wide, with gently sloping meadows on one 
or both sides, although at some places the stream is shut in by cliffs 
which rise precipitously on both banks. Immediately along the 
stream and its tributaries are groves of cottonwood, with thickets 
of alder, aspen, birch, hawthorn, and other shrubs. The stream is 
inhabited by large numbers of beaver, whose dams are found every- 
where. In places fully half of the trees seemed to have been cut 
down by these animals, to be used as food or in the construction of 
their dams. 
