PLANTS+ OF THE BLACK RANGE OF NEW MEXICO Volume Three Arranged by english common name This checklist recognizes the plant collecting efforts of Anna Isabel Mulford in the Black Range during 1895. PLANTS+ OF THE BLACK RANGE OF NEW MEXICO An Annotated Checklist Edition One of Volume three This checklist of the plants (including a few lichen and other Black Range website, a search for specimen sheets was non-plant species) of the Black Range of southwestern New conducted; Mexico draws from a variety of sources. It is a work in progress and undoubtedly contains errors. If you encounter ✦ If a specimen sheet from the Black Range was located errors of substantive omission or commission or for the species, an entry noting this was made in the administrative errors (broken or incorrect links, spelling, notes column. The name of the collector and the etc.) please let me know at [email protected] so that general location where the specimen was collected the errors can be corrected in the second edition. Your help was entered in the notes column as a link to the in this manner will be of benefit to the general community. specimen sheet. Such entries are shown in dark blue. Methodology ✦ Species which are not verified for the Black Range are indicated by a light blue “cell filling” in the first cell in This checklist was put together in the following manner: the species row. ✦ A search of the SEINet data base (Arizona & New Mexico Chapters) was conducted to determine the Disclaimers and possible species in the Black Range; Points of Clarification ✦ A preliminary search of the Consortium of North In some cases, you may note that an entry from the Vascular American Lichen Herbaria data base was conducted to Plants of the Gila Wilderness data base has been entered on determine possible species in the Black Range (this the checklist but the initial cell of the species listing is filled work is incomplete); in light blue indicating that the species was not verified for the Black Range following the process described above. ✦ These listings were matched against the files of the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness and the photo It is quite possible that most (perhaps close to all?) species galleries of the Black Range website; listed in the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness data base are found in the Black Range. But absent a clear ✦ If there was a match, a link to the species page on the documentation of that fact, we have highlighted them for Vascular Plants of Gila Wilderness site and/or the more scrutiny - the light blue cell. On the flip side of the appropriate page on www.blackrange.org was entered coin, there are some listings in this checklist which are not in the notes column; listed on the Vascular Plants of Gila Wilderness site. ✦ A review of the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness We have attempted to adhere to a conservative definition of data base was conducted to determine if an image “the Black Range”. Basically, it is the area confined by the from the Black Range is included on the species page major road systems which border the range; NM-59 in the at that site. If so, the Vascular Plants of the Gila north (taking in some of the area north of this highway); Wilderness was used to verify that the species can be North Star Road on the NW side of the range; NM-35 from found in the Black Range. In the notes column this is the junction of North Star to NM-152; NM-61 from NM-152 indicated by an entry for the location where the species to US-180; US-180 to NM-26; NM-26 to NM-27; NM-27 to was found followed by a ‘(V)”; Hillsboro; and then roughly northward to Winston/NM-59. These general boundaries are shades of gray - City of Rocks ✦ If the species is included in the photo galleries of the State Park is included, the area to the east of US-180 is not Black Range website, the location where the species included until the foothills are encountered; and the eastern was found was entered in the notes column followed foothills are included for roughly 5 miles west of Hillsboro by “(B)”’; and north. ✦ For all species not verified for the Black Range in the review of Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness or the Black Range website photo galleries: The images in the scientific species name (Latin binomial). That volume galleries have not been thoroughly vetted but are believed includes a listing of the plant collectors who collected to be accurately identified. the specimens referenced in the checklist. In some cases the SEINet listing could not be verified for the ✦ In the second volume, species are listed in alphabetical Black Range, as noted above. There may be several reasons order by scientific species name (Latin binomial). That why this is the case, including inconsistencies found on the volume also lists the sites most frequently referenced in specimen sheets which clouded the area of collection and a the checklist and provides a general description of their certain lack of “search capability” on the part of the editor. locations. Most importantly, however, the entries listed in light blue should serve as a guide for the efforts of future collectors. ✦ In the third volume, species are listed in alphabetical order by English common name. Therefore, multiple Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness is the premier entries are possible for each species. botanical website for southwestern New Mexico. We all owe a debt to Russ Kleinman and the many other We currently anticipate that the second edition will be contributors to that site for the work they have done (and issued in 2022. regularly do). Your help in improving this, the first edition, will be The “verification listing” has no other significance than the reflected in the second edition. No further editions are fact that the indicated source was used for initial planned at this time. verification. It does not indicate, for example, that the specified location is the best location to see the species. Copyright Scientific names may be subject to challenge. The species This checklist is not available in hard copy; you can not buy name used here generally follows the nomenclature used in it. It is free. If you have a copy, please forward it to anyone Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness. In some cases who might like to have it. The Black Range website does speciation determinations may be in dispute. In some cases not accept advertisements nor does it accept monetary the “generally accepted name” may be in dispute. donations. It is “not-for-revenue”. It is about sharing knowledge. This publication is available as a .pdf on the Unless there is no accepted English common name for a Black Range Website or in magazine format at our species, at least one of the most common names is listed. bookcase. Other Volumes This publication is offered to you under a Creative Commons non-commercial license; you are free to use it for whatever This checklist is the third volume of a three-volume set. All non-commercial purpose you wish. Copyright will be three volumes present the same information (except there aggressively enforced and penalties exercised in the case of will be minor variations due to digital updates which any unauthorized commercial use. occurred between the publication dates of the various volumes) but it is arrayed differently. ✦ In the first volume, plant species are listed in alphabetical order by family name, and then by Table of Contents 1. Methodology 2. Disclaimers and Points of Clarification 3. Other Volumes 4. Copyright 5. Table of Contents 6. Anna Isabel Mulford 7. Listing of Plant Species in alphabetical order by English common name Anna Isabel Mulford is.” (page 61 of cited work - capitalization of the latin binomial as in the original) Dr. Anna Isabel Mulford (1848-1943) received her Other descriptions of this process follow in her work. Other undergraduate degree uses of the Agave, in the making of rope, for instance, from Vassar College in follow. 1886 and her Ph.D., in Botany, from Washington “Professor Toumey's letter already referred to goes on to University in 1895. She say that the epidermis and fibers, separated by the was the first student to squaws from the edible portion of the mescal, are not receive a doctorate at that thrown away, but are taken by the men, thoroughly University. The topic of washed and cleansed, and the fibers well separated, so her dissertation was her that they can be made into ropes. Each man takes a research on the agaves of quantity of these fibers, and begins to twist. When the the United States. It strands are of sufficient length, they are tied to trees, and served as the basis for her the men backing away from the trees continue to add book, A Study of the fibers and to twist. Their work is assisted by small sticks, Agaves of the United about a foot long and larger and heavier at one end. By States, published by the fastening the small end to the rope close to the hand, the Missouri Botanical Garden. Her work is an excellent twist made is given a greater force by the motion of the example of how interconnected the world of science can be. heavy end in flying round and round. When the ropes In her acknowledgments (for the book above) she mentions are of the required length, the loose ends are pegged to Mearns, Townsend, S.