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should prove not only a great help to the student of glacial 

 phenomena who visits the parks, but it should inspire many 

 Canadians with a desire to see the wonderful mountain scenery 

 of their own country for themselves, "to put on," as Dr. Cole- 

 man says, "warm, strong clothes and hob-nailed shoes, and to 

 fill one's lungs with mountain air in a scramble up to the snow 

 fields to see how the glacial machinery works." 



The pamphlets may be obtained free on application to the 

 Dominion Parks Branch, Ottawa. 



A HYBRID ROSE. 

 Rosa gymnocarpa Nutt. x R. nutkana Presl. 



Stems rather slender, 1.3 — 2 m. high; prickles below densely 

 soft-prickly, slightly retrorse, above slender but stiff; leaflets 

 simply serrate, 1 — 2.7 cm., broad, oval, rounded at both ends, 

 glabrous beneath; stipules broad; flowers mostly in clusters of 

 2 — 4 or solitary, bright pink with pink stigmas 4 — 4.5 cm. broad; 

 calyx more or less glandular, persistent, the appendages 5 — 15 

 mm. long; receptacle at flowering 3 — 6 mm. in diameter; pollen 

 scanty and abortive ; fruit mostly not developing, the few seen 

 7 — 8 mm. in diameter, producing few nutlets. 



Several clumps of this rose occur near Crescent Beach, B.C., 

 at the base of a bluff facing Boundary Bay. The bushes, with 

 their rather slender flourishing stems, rising somewhat above 

 the surrounding R. nutkana, look much like R. pisocarpa, 

 especially as the flowers are mostly in small clusters, and smaller 

 than those of K. nutkana. R. pisocarpa, however, does not occur 

 in the immediate vicinity, and does not flower till late in June. 

 The plant just described flowers with R. nutkana and R. gymno- 

 carpa, all three being in full bloom May 20, 1915. 



The clustered flowers, the prickles and the glabrous leaflets, 

 suggest R. gymnocarpa; the large leaves and the glandular per- 

 sistent sepals, R. nutkana. With its long, rather slender, very 

 floriferous stems and bright flowers, this is a most attractive 

 rose. It is readily, even at some distance, distinguished from 

 R. nutkana, by which it is surrounded, by the brighter pink 

 petals. 



J. K. Henry. 



NOTE. 



In Mr. P. A. Taverner's article, "Geological Survey Museutn 

 Work on Point Pelee, Ont.," published in the November, 1914, 

 issue of The Ottawa Naturalist, the year in which the ob- 

 servations recorded therein were made is not mentioned. This 

 was 1913. Ornithologists please note. 



