IRbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 24. June, 1922. No. 282. 
NOTES ON SOME ALGAE FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
WM. RANDOLPH TAYLOR. 
THE amount of information available regarding the algal vegeta- 
tion of the mountainous portions of North America being very small 
it is perhaps not amiss to record the results of a study of some collec- 
tions of algae made at various points in the Selkirk and the neighbor- 
ing Eagle Pass Mountains of British Columbia. During the latter 
part of the summer of 1921 the writer had the pleasure of making one 
of a party under the direction of Dr. Merkel H. Jacobs which camped 
in this region. Although not in the field primarily for the purpose 
of collecting, the opportunity was too good to be altogether neglected, 
and this note is based on the collections of algae secured at that 
time and examined on return to the laboratory. 
The sources of the material fall into three groups. The first col- 
lections were made west of the town of Revelstoke, starting near 
the Big Eddy of the Columbia River on the west bank, and thence 
north and west to an altitude of about 7,000 feet on an unnamed 
mountain lying between Cañon and Half-way Creeks, both of which 
empty into Jordan Creek, a tributary of the Columbia River. This 
mountain is one of the Eagle Pass group of the Columbia system, 
which lies west of the Big Bend of the Columbia River. The other 
two areas traversed were in the Selkirk Mountains, which lie within 
the Big Bend, surrounded by it on the east, north and west. A few 
days at Glacier gave an opportunity to get material from the valley 
near the Illecillewaet Glacier, from various stations on the Cascade 
