92 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OP [1884. 



CUPULIPERJE. 



Quercus Kellogii Newb. Victoria, B. C. 



Where exposed to the sea-breezes this seemed but a small 

 " chinquapin "-like bush two or three feet ; but only a short 

 distance in the island it becomes a fine timber tree. I believe 

 this is as far north as I saw any species of oak growing. 



TAXACE^. 

 Taxus brevifolia Nutt. Victoria, B. C, and Port Townsend, W. T. 



A few trees in the vicinity of Victoria, quite as large as some 

 seen in the Calaveras grove of Sequoias, and probabl}?^ growing 

 further north, though not seen. 



CONIFERJE. 



Abies grandis Lindl. Port Townsend, W. T. ; Victoria, B. C. 

 Chamaecyparis Nutkaensis Spach. 



Is said by authors to be very abundant from the Columbia 

 River northward through British Columbia and southeastern 

 Alaska. I could not find a single specimen, though continually 

 on the lookout for it, and the owner of a saw-mill at Killisnow 

 Island informed us that the " yellow cedar " Was an extremely 

 rare tree in that region. 



Ficea Sitcfaensis Carriere (Aliea Menziesii, of sf'me modern authors). 



Common everj^where through British Columbia to the head of 

 Glacier Bay, Alaska, at the latter place forming buried forests 

 near the Muir Glacier and Bartlett Bay. At Kaigan some trees 

 measured twenty-one feet round. It evidently loves atmospheric 

 moisture, and grows on barren rocks, when it is under these 

 atmospheric conditions, quite vigorously; and in this way assists 

 in forming a covering of earth over the rocks. At Kaigan there 

 were trees of many years old, growing from the top of the Indian 

 "totem poles," half as tall as the poles' at times. 



Finns contorta Dougl. Chilcat Inlet. 



A tree about twenty or thirty feet high, with a rather flattish, 

 spreading head ; short ovoid cones, and which are not at all 

 oblique, growing among rocks along the coast. 



Also at Bartlett Bay, where it is a stout, very vigorous shrub, 

 branching from the base, without any attempt to make a leader, 

 and much resembling the habit of Pinus montana of Europe. The 

 plants were very fertile, the cones being freely scattered among 

 the branches, and cylindrical, without any tendency to obliquity. 



