Introduction 
For a readable and useful account of Wright’s life and of his botanical 
activities in Texas see account by S. W. Geiser, Naturalis ts of the Frontier 
214-252, and 314 ( 1937 )• ®ootoh. Bull. Tor*. Cl. 33 : 12-17 (1886),studied 
Wright's field-lists and published a chronological list of the localities 
mentioned.in them. Standley, Contr. U. 3 .Nat. Herb.13:143-246 (1910), has some 
itinerary 
notes on ^ Wright'in New Mexico and a list of new species he 
collected there. The notes on localities given by Wooton and by Standley,however, 
are not critical and some are incorrect. Additional data on Wright's 
collection may be found in the two published parts of Gray’s Plantae Wrightian ae. 
With this transcript of Wright’s field-notes I have given a running 
commentary concerning the precise location of places he visited. These notes 
are based, not only on the list itself, but on a consideration of contempor^v^ 
documents,, as well. The route has been followed on every large-scaled modern 
map available. 
Much of Wright’s collecting was done along the wagon road between San Antonio 
and El Paso. Practically all of his collection of 1849 was obtained along the 
road. Large parts of the first and third lots of his collection of 185I-52 were 
^Wobtsined along it also. He was not always consistent as to the names of 
the localities at which he collected during his three traverses of this route. 
The detailed discussion of localities along the San Antonio - El Paso road 
I have given with his collections of 1849. Reference to this full discussion 
will befound in my notes regarding Wright’s later collections from along the 
route. 
