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and Coghill, of the University of New Mexico, collected two or 

 three hundred numbers in the vicinity of Winsor's ranch. A 

 set of these plants is in the herbarium of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege. Dr. Vernon Bailey, of the U. S. Biological Survey, col- 

 lected during one summer in the forest, but the writer has seen 

 nothing published concerning his collections. Professor and 

 Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell spent parts of several summers there, 

 and in August of 1902 ascended Truchas Peak. In the Ameri- 

 can Naturalist for that year is an account of their trip and a 

 short list of plants collected above timber line on this peak. 

 Mrs. W. H. Bartlett, of Santa Fe, who has been an enthusiastic 

 student of the New Mexican flora, has forwarded several collec- 

 tions made along the upper Pecos to our herbarium. 



Just to the west of the area lies Santa Fe, where Fendler 

 collected the types of so many New Mexican plants. Here, too, 

 Professor A. A. Heller collected during the early summer of 

 1897. 



The writer spent two months of the summer of 1908 col- 

 lecting in and near the forest, and as he made only a few sets 

 of plants, he was able to give the greater part of his time to the 

 exploration of the flora rather than to the preparation of speci- 

 mens. About six weeks were spent at Winsor's ranch on the 

 Rio Pecos about twenty miles up the river from the small vil- 

 lage of Pecos. From this ranah numerous trips were made in 

 every direction, the most of them lasting a single day. Pecos 

 Baldy was visited early in July; a trip of three days' duration 

 was made to the Truchas Peaks during the first week of August. 

 Visits were also made to Santa Fe about thirty miles distant by 

 trail across the Santa Fe Range, crossing the heads of the Rio 

 Xambe and the Rio Tesuque on the way, and to Harvey's upper 

 ranch on the east side of the forest. Most of the plants were 

 collected about Winsor's, and it is a remarkable fact that almost 

 all the plants collected below timber line could be found within 

 a mile of the ranch. Two weeks were spent at Harrison's ranch 

 near the town of Pecos, in a region of Low, sandy, and stony hills, 

 which were covered with a scanty growth of piliyon and juniper. 

 Altogether about 1325 numbers were secured, representing prob- 



