Wright ’s Field. Lists 
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The following plant-lists are copied from manuscript lists sent to 
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Gray hy the collector. The numbers given are field-numbers assigned the 
collections by Wright. These numbers were disregarded by Gray when he made 
up Wright’s plants into sets. The numbers on the labels of Wright specimens 
in herbaria belong to a new series assigned them by Gray, the set of 
distribution-numbers. Hot only did Gray ignore Wright’s field-numbers but 
he also frequently united and distributed under a single distribution-number, 
two or even more of the collections which had collected under different 
field-numbers .frequently at distant stations^and at different seasons. 
If Gray thought two or more of Wright’s collections represented the same species 
and if there was any advantage in uniting them, he did so regularly without 
scruples. 
Many of the plants distributed by Gray can not be definitely 
associated with any of the numbers given in Wright’s field-lists. Since Wright 
had a good ’-n^wle&ge of genera and families of Texan plants } his field 
identification and the geographical data given by Gray in the Plantae Wrightianae 
help one to make a reasonably good guess as to the precise identity of many 
collections. In the Gray Herbarium it is common to find, obscurely pencilled 
in the corner of the femilar blue label of the Wright collection, numbers which 
refer to the field-lists treated here. In the pocket of other collections 
frequently found / 
there is a small bit of paper bearing Wrights original field-number, in the script 
of the collector, probably representing the tag which Wright placed with 
each collection as he assembled fckerrin the field, Following the sBqaence of 
Bentham & Hooker, Gray treated in the Plantae Wrightianae . I & II, the Dicot. 
families up to and including the Compositae. Gray appears to have considered 
that he had extracted all of value from the field-list for those collections 
treated in the Plantae Wrightianae, and as a general irule made little or no 
effort... to 
