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are from 8-17 cm. The plants were all in fruit. One 

 was found with a belated crimson flower. This was part 

 of the interesting vegetation high up on the moist bench 

 of the cliffs near Bluff City ; a stranded relic of boreal 

 vegetation in a region of sonoran plants, and cut off by 

 an altitude of several hundred feet from the riparian flora 

 below. 



69. Fraxinus anomala Torr., ex S. Watson in Bot. 

 King's Rep., 283. 



Type locality: " Labyrinth Canon, Colorado River." 

 This was common throughout the region, growing on 

 the edge of canons and in the depths below. Collected 

 in fine fruit in McElmo Canon. The wood of this ash 

 is much darker in color than is usual in this genus. 



70. Forestiera Neo-Mexicana Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., 

 xii, 63. 



Described first as F. acuminata var. -parvifolia Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad., iv, 364. 



Type localities : "New Mexico, near Santa Fe, Fendler, 

 No. 547; below El Paso, Wright, No. 1699; Semelenque 

 Springs, Dr. Bigelow (in Mexican Bound. Coll.)." 



Collected in fruit on the San Juan River and along the 

 bitter springs of Epsom Creek. It is abundant wherever 

 it grows. 



71. Apocynum cannabinum L., Sp. PL, i, 213 (1752). 

 Habitat: " Canada and Virginia." 



Collected on the banks of the San Juan River near 

 the Willow Creek Junction. The cymes are few flowered, 

 loosely and very slenderly branched, minute bracts are 

 numerous. 



72. Amsonia angustifolia Michx., var. Texana Gray, 

 Syn. Fl., 81. 



Type locality: " Texas, in rocky prairies and at the 

 base of limestone cliffs." 



