Along Limpia Creek in the Davis Mts. 
Jeff Davis County 
During his trip of 1849 Wright called the creek Limply 
but adopted the masculine ending, Limpio_, on his 
expedition of 1851-152. Present usage ssnntions,Limpia_ 
Wright in letter to Gray dated July 3 ,1S5X states,- 
"...but when we reached the Limpio which before furnished me with 
so great a variety of plants we found it perfectly dry,a recent fire 
had swept over the whol9 country to the very summit of the mountains 
and I found only occasionally a plant worthy of notice. The same 
parching drought had extended to this place (Frontera near SIPaso;.) 
and low much beyond I do not know. In the valley of the Hio Grande 
I found a very scant vegetation" 
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