FUNGI OF NEW MEXICO 
Paul C. Standley 
The flowering plants and vascular cryptogams of New Mexico 
are now fairly well known and much has been published concern- 
ing them. The collections upon which our knowledge is based 
were begun as early as 1820, and some of the larger and more 
important ones were made from 1846 to the middle fifties, al- 
though most of our knowledge of the plants of the state results 
from the extensive collections obtained in the last twenty-five 
years. 
Concerning the lower cryptogams of New Mexico, however, 
only the most fragmentary information is available. The early 
collectors paid little attention to any but the higher plants. August " 
Fendler (1846-47) and Charles Wright (1851-52) gathered a 
few mosses and hepatics, but even the most recent collectors have 
taken little interest in those groups or in the lichens and fungi. 
Dr. T. H. Macbride spent one season in New Mexico collecting 
Myxomycetes and published- a list of 25 species which he obtained. 
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, ever an untiring student of matters per- 
taining to the natural history of the state, has collected many 
specimens of cryptogams, and has published® the only list of New 
Mexican fungi (46 species) which has thus far appeared. Sev- 
eral mycologists — S. M. Tracy, F. S. Earle, David Griffiths, G. G. 
Hedgcock, E. W. D. Holway, and perhaps others — have collected 
in New IMexico. In the spring of 1914 Dr. J. C. Arthur and 
Dr. F. D. Fromme visited the ^tate for the purpose of securing 
material for their investigations -of the Uredinales. But the only 
results from these explorations, so far as the literature of New 
Mexican mycology is concerned, have been scattered descriptions 
of new species or incidental references in various monographs. 
1 Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
2 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 12 : 33-38. 1905. 
3 Jour. Myc. 10:49-51. 1904. 
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