Bibliography of the Botany of Arizona

Abstract

An introductory bibliography for the Arizona flora but from which many titles have been omitted purposely was given by Prof. J. W. Harshberger in his Phytogeographical Survey of North America (Engler and Drude, Die Vegetation der Erde XIII) published in 1911. The Arizona items must be culled from Section V. Southwestern Arid States and Great Basin (pp. 7578) of his larger division Special Works on the Territories. In the intervening quarter of a century since its publication there have appeared in a wide assortment of books and periodicals, botanical and non-botanical, scientific and popular, numerous articles of varying value on the flora of the region. To include these more recent contributions and to exhume the older less familiar references is the object of the present bibliography covering an eightysix year period (1848-1934). Here the emphasis has been at all times taxonomic and floristic but with such entries added from zoological fields as might prove of supplementary botanical value. Books or papers on the flora of adjacent states or of a monographic nature, when these give only scattered references to Arizona species, are excluded with exception of ferns. Likewise articles treating of a single species except when peculiarly Arizonan, accounts essentially agricultural or economic, or papers 'of an ecological nature based on a few species not signally Arizonan though emanating from that state, are not included. On the other hand papers including assorted new species or miscellaneous notes which might from their titles be unsuspected of yielding Arizona references have, so far as discovered, been included. Annotations are freely given, particularly for those titles which do not convey an adequate idea of their scope or contents, as well as occasional comment of the compiler relative to the prospect for the user. Certain unpublished theses of the University of Arizona are included. Under the opportunities of inter-library loan these papers, often of pertinent merit, are available to a wider group of readers than commonly realized. Newspaper articles of C. C. Parry, the conciliatory pilgrim of botany across emergent West-America, are of exceeding interest and value in certain problems of fixing the origin of his critical collections. It is unfortunate that these are not widely available. Papers on cryptogamic botany have not been religiously searched out, but all that have come to my notice are included. A few titles have not been seen; these are indicated in all cases with the source furnishing the entry. Two indices conclude the bibliography: a geographic index and one to authors. The available longer papers for any part of the state and the year or years of publication for an author may be quickly ascertained by the use of these guides. For these suggestions I am indebted to the admirable ornithological bibliographies of Prof. Joseph Grinnell. P. C. Standley has prepared an annotated bibliography to the botany of New Mexico (Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13:229-246, with 430