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The Director and his assistant made a small collection on August 1st and 2nd of the more 
interesting plants of Mount Arrowsmith, undoubtedly one of the richest floral fields of Vancouver 
Island. The following specimens were collected, which appear to be additions to the flora of 
Vancouver Island not hitherto recorded :— 
Oxryria digyna. Draba nivalis. 
Lewisia pygmea. Silene acaulis. 
Savifraga lyallii. Osmorrhiza purpurea. 
Antennaria rosea. Agoseris glauca. 
Other species of interest were :— 
Lewisia columbiana. Ranunculus eschscholtzii. 
Brysimum elatum. Saxifraga bronchialis. 
Sazvifraga punctata. Savifraga tolmici. 
Potentilla dissecta var. glaucophylla. Potentilla villosa. 
Lomatium martindalei var. augustatum. Bpilobium anagallidifolium. 
Cladothamnus pyroleflorus. Dodecatheon pauciflorum. 
Mimulus alpinus. Phyllodoce glanduliflorus. 
Pedicularis ornithoryncha. Arnica latifolia. 
Arnica amplericaulis. Senecio triangularis. 
A few plants were also collected in the vicinity of Long Beach, on the west coast of 
- Vancouver Island, the latter part of September, including :— 
Polypodium scouleri. Botrychium silaifolium. 
Carex macrocephala. Hydastylus brachypus. 
Listera caurina. Empetrum nigrum. 
Gentiana douglasiana. Franseria bipinnatifida. 
Stachys ciliata var. pubens. 
A large number of specimens have been mounted by Miss H. J. Hendry, now in charge of 
the office of the Museum, and placed in the collection of the Herbarium; a card-index has been 
completed of the mounted specimens, and the whole have been arranged in their systematic 
order of families, according to the check-list of the plants of Gray’s Manual. 
A record has also been made of all duplicates and unmounted material, and the same placed 
in genus-covers and arranged in the same systematic order. 
The nucleus of the Herbarium, the original collection loaned by the Department of Agricul- 
ture, and made by Mr. J. R. Anderson at the time he was Deputy Minister of Agriculture, has 
been rearranged and placed in the accepted order; this collection still remains in its original 
genus-covers and is in an excellent state of preservation, due to the great care Mr. Anderson 
took in preparing his specimens, many of which were collected twenty years ago. 
From an educational standpoint the collection now in the Herbarium is available to teachers 
and other students of botany, and should prove a great facility to them for comparison in 
identifying any plants they do not know. A number of the latest and most authentic books on 
our flora are also at hand for reference; these will be found in the office of the Museum, 
LIST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND PLANTS COLLECTED AND PRESENTED TO THE 
PROVINCIAL MUSEUM. 
By Proressor JoHN Macowun, or Sipney, B.C. 
POLYPODIACE®. 
Adiantum pedatum L. Polypodium occidentale (Hook.) Maxon. 
Aspidium spinulosum (O. F. Miiller) Sw., Polystichum braunii (Spenner) Fée, var. 
var. dilatatum (Hoffm.) Hook. andersoni. 
Asplenium felix-famina (L.) Bernh. Polystichum munitum (Kault.) Presl. 
Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh. Pteris aquilina lanuginosa Bong. 
Cryptogramma acrostichoides R. Br. Woodwardia radicans (Smith), var. amert 
Lomaria spicant Desy. cana Hook. 
OPHIOGLOSSACE®. 
Botrychium simplex Hitche. Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. 
Botrychium silaifolium Presl. 
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