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ably 800 species, besides about 100 numbers of fungi. 



The flora of the forest is, as might be expected because of 

 its geographical position, very much like that of Colorado, and 

 most of the plants found are listed in Rydberg's Flora of that 

 state. A considerable number of the plants collected by Fend- 

 ler about Santa Fe were recollected, some of them at their type 

 stations along Santa Fe creek. 



Wiusor's ranch has an altitude of about 8000 feet. It is 

 situated within a stone's throw of the Pecos at the mouth of a 

 small stream known as Winsor creek. Numerous other streams 

 empty into the Pecos both above and below the ranch; in fact, 

 one can hardly go a mile in any direction without crossing one 

 of the mountain brooks. On all sides of the ranch rise the steep 

 sides of the lower mountains, covered with a rather thick growth 

 of Pinns scopularnm, Pseudotsuga mucronata, Abies concolor, 

 Picea Parryana, and Populus trcmuloides. Underneath these 

 trees such shrubs as Ltpargyraea canadensis, Edwinia ameri- 

 cana, Prunus melanocarpa, several roses, Juniperus sibirica, sev- 

 eral species of Ribes, Opulaster monogynus, and Sambucus niic- 

 robotrys are of frequent occurrence. In places where there are 

 but few large trees upon the mountain side, there is a thick 

 growth of some of the low, bushy oaks of the Gambelii group. 

 Growing underneath and among these trees and shrubs were 

 found many interesting herbaceous plants. On one hillside with 

 northern exposure along Winsor creek were found three species 

 of Pyrola, two of Peramium, several of Limnorchis, a Corallor- 

 Jiiza, masses of a beautiful Cypripcdiioi/, and several other orchi- 

 daceous plants, besides Arctostaphylos ( r va-urst, Hypopitys Hy- 

 papitys in abundance, a Vaccinium, and many others equally 

 interesting because of their rarity in arid regions. 



Along the streams the most conspicuous shrubs were Dis- 

 tegia involucrata, Dasiophora fruticosa, . \hnis tenuifolia, Salix 

 Bebbiana, and Acer glabrum. Papains angustifolia extended 

 up the Pecos to the mouth of the Rio Mora about two miles 

 from Winsor's. The great white umbels of Heracleum lanatum 

 and the stiff stalks of / eratrum tcunipctalnm were equally con- 

 spicuous along the edges of some of the streams. The valleys 



