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The herbaceous Hora, although scanty, is rich in species, some 51 

 being enumerated as typical. 



Crossing the Rockies, we come into an entirely different world, 

 biologically speaking, and into more varied and complicated conditions. 



The Selkirk Range, really a high level plateau from which the 

 peaks arise, in their forest composition show Pacific Coast influences, 

 with Thuya plicata, Pseudotsuga, Picea Bngelmanni, and the two 

 western Tsugas. The shrub vegetation, however, is on the mountains 

 proper very similar to that of the Rocky Mountains-, and although 

 much more luxuriant, not represented by many species. In the lower 

 valleys, however, both shrub and herbaceous vegetation is of Pacific 

 Coast species, luxuriantly developed, no marked difference from the 

 coast flora being discoverable. 



Although practically all the species found in the Selkirks are also 

 found in the Coast Range, there are species added which are confined 

 to the coast proper, some of them truly endemic, very local in dis- 

 tribution and found nowhere else in British Columbia ; among them 

 numerous species of Antennaria, Arnica, Senecio, Aster, Erigeron, 

 Salal (Gaultheria shallon) and Devil's Club (Fatsia horrida) are two 

 of the typical underbrush, and among trees Sitka spruce, Oregon 

 alder, Acer macrophyllum and circinatum, Rhamnus Purshiana. 



A special zone must be made of the southeastern part of Vancoux'er 

 Island, where, due to a comparatively small precipitation, more or less 

 xerophil conditions exist and members of the California flora are 

 found, which occur nowhere else in Canada, such as Quercus garryana, 

 and Arbutus mensiesii, besides numerous herbaceous species. 



Another special set of conditions and corresponding flora is found 

 in the Dry Belts of British Columbia, strangely contrasting with other 

 parts of the Province, due to scant precipitation and to soil nature. 

 There are two floristic subdivisions to be made, the one characterized 

 by the bunch grasses (especially Agropyrufn spicatum and Elymus 

 condensatus, more or less destitute of forest growth, and the more 

 densely wooded division with Pinus ponderosa in parklike stands, 

 which exhibits a goodly number of xerophil herbaceous and shrub 

 vegetation. B. E. F. 



Timbers of British North Borneo, Minor Forest Products and 

 Jungle Produce. By F. W. Foxworthy. Ph.D. Bulletin No. 1 of the 

 Department of Forestry, British North Borneo. 



The Conservator of Forests, D. M. Matthews, formerly of the 



