. New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns . those who have collected ex-tensively in the region is less than a dozen, it is clear that thereremains a fertile fiel
. New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns . those who have collected ex-tensively in the region is less than a dozen, it is clear that thereremains a fertile field for exploration by those interested in taxo-nomic botany. When new plants are still being found in New Eng-land, where for the past century or more hundreds of botanists andbotanical collectors have been at work, it is evident that it will bemany years before any botanist working in almost any part of NewMexico will fail to find plants that have not before been reportedfrom the State. Perhaps the most striking features in its botany tothe stranger who sees New Mexico for the first time isits cacti. While there are nothing like so many here asin Arizona or California, it is in New Mexico that thetraveler from the East first sees them; hence they areimpressed upon the mind as an individualistic feature ofthis State, and the conception has become popular, viz.,that New Mexico is essentially the home of the popular misconception is that any queer-looking,. MESQUITE. DESKRT FLORA. THREE ETCHINGS BY WALLACE L. DEWOLF. (See page 394.) The Flora of New Mexico 345 spine-covered plant growing on a mesa or desert is acactus. Already I have referred to the peculiar climatic condi-tions of New Mexico. These have a direct bearing uponthe number and variety of the cactus growths. Thereare five genera found, viz., Opuntia, Mamillaria, Echino-cactus, Echino-Cereus, and Peniocereus, and in thesethere are known to exist in New Mexico among theOpuntia, 28 species; Mamillaria, 12 s
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