FLOWERS AND INSECTS IN NEW MEXICO. 
T. D. A. COCKERELL. 
IN a certain sense we may say correctly that the flora of our 
country is fairly well known. New species, and even genera, 
are frequently described, but most of these are segregates from 
the more comprehensive groups of earlier authors, and radically 
new types are not often met with. Nevertheless, there is 
hardly a plant upon which new observations may not be made 
with ease. Our whole flora needs redescribing from living 
plants, every species needs close study to determine the char- 
acter and range of its variations, and the relations between 
plants and insects offer a field for research which appears 
practically inexhaustible. The following notes record the 
results of some recent researches, and may serve as a con- 
tribution to entomophytology. They are classified according 
to locality. 
Rio Rurposo, WHITE MOUNTAINS. 
This is an alpine region in southern New Mexico, possessing 
a remarkably interesting flora, with quite a number of apparently 
endemic types. Prof. C. H. T. Townsend collected there a large 
number of bees, together with the flowers on which they were 
found. Some of these have been recorded, but the following 
data are new: | 
(1) Verbena macdougalii Heller. A very common species in New Mexico, 
formerly regarded as V. stricta, but separated by Heller on what 
seem to be perfectly valid grounds. The lilac-purple flowers are 
arranged in long spikes, so that the plant looks entirely different from 
the ordinary kinds of Verbena, which are adapted to butterflies. At 
the foot of Baldy Mountain, near Elizabethtown, Mrs. O. St. John 
found a variation (mut. nov. rosella) with pink flowers. The ordinary 
form was growing at the same place, which had an altitude of about 
9600 feet. 
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