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County, Washington. These specimens are very desirable, as there is a possibility that this and 
some of the other plants at present only known to the Olympic Range may eventually be found 
on some of the higher mountains on the west coast of Vancouver Island. 
Mr. George Fraser, of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, presented a number of specimens of 
hybridization, chiefly among Rubus, upon which he has been working since 1912, in order to 
find out if he could throw any light on the parentage of the loganberry. He is to be congratulated 
for his marked strides of success in producing many interesting variations between well-known 
cultivated varieties and our native species, which should proye of much scientific value to 
horticulturists ; the following list represents the results of his research :— 
English raspberry x Rubus nuthanius. 
Rubus nutkanus x English raspberry. 
English raspberry x Rubus spectabilis 
English raspberry x Rubus leucodermis. 
Rubus macropetalus x English raspberry. 
Rubus macropetalus x Mongrel raspberry. the result of crossing Rubus spectabilis with 
raspberry. 
Rubus macropetalus x Wrie blackberry (Rubus canadensis). 
Rubus macropetalus x Lucretia dewberry (eubus villirus yar.). 
Rubus macropetalus x Loganberry. 
Upright seedling from Rubus macropetalus x Loganberry. 
Loganberry x English raspberry (infertile). 
Loganberry x Rubus nutkanus (fertile). 
Loganberry x Rubus nutkanus (infertile). 
Loganberry x Rubus spectabilis (fertile). 
Loganberry x Rubus laciniatus (infertile). 
In the above list Mr. Fraser states the first named is the seed parent. 
Another consignment of hybridization received from Mr. Fraser included the following 
plants :-— 
Rubus parviflorus x R. odoratus. 
Fruit and foliage of Rubus wrsinus x Loganberry. 
Fruit of Pyrus diversifolia x cultivated variety of P. malus. 
Myosotis lara x Myosotis palustris semperjiorens. P 
Lonicera Perclymeum x Lonicera ciliosa (fertile). 
Knight’s hybrid ribes. 
Campanula rotundifolia var. 
Aster? 
Mr. Fraser states the following plants, of which he also very kindly donated specimens, 
with the exception of Vaccinium macrocarpum Ait., have established themselves by seeding 
unassisted on ground which has been cleared and burned but never has been cultivated :— 
Rhododendron ponticum. Brica vagans. z 
Calluna vulgaris. Brica vagans var. alba. 
Calluna vulgaris alporti. Spirea Bumalda. 
Calluna vulgaris alba. Pernethya mucronata. 
Dabéecia polifolia. Vaccinium macrocarpum, 
Daboecia polifolia alba. 
It will be interesting to note whether any of these plants later become distributed and 
established throughout the Ucluelet District. 
There has been an increase in the number of visitors seeking information about our native 
flora, and a large increase over previous years in the quantity of plants sent in for identification, 
Mr. T. P. Mackenzie and Mr. G. V. Copley, of the Grazing Commission, sending in approximately 
300 specimens, many of them plants from the dry interior of the Province, and wherever possible 
duplicate specimens have been donated for the Herbarium collection. 
Among these plants, the following are of special interest :— 
Agropyron dasystachyum (Hook.) Scribn. Panicum capillare L. 
Bromus Porteri (Coult.) Nash. Poa brachyglossa Piper. 
Danthonia intermedia Vasey. Poa nervosa (Hook.) Vasey. 
Elymus dasystachys Trin. Poa Sandbergii Vasey. 

