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of the time between July i8 and Aug. 15 in 

 field work. 



The region gone over in these two seasons' 

 work is largely coastal, being mostly confined to 

 the open rocky beaches in the vicinity of the 

 above named seaside station, and the territory 

 surrounding San Juan Harbor. Excursions were 

 made inland for several miles in the San Juan 

 and Gordon river valleys. 



From this it may be seen that no extensive 

 generalizations on plant distribution along the 

 west coast of Vancouver Island will here be at- 

 tempted, but that rather it will be the object in 

 these pages to set forth a few main facts bearing 

 upon plant ecology and plant floristics as revealed 

 in the particular limited area defined above, not 

 striving to enter into too detailed analyses and 

 elucidations which can be undertaken onlv with 



the aid of fuller observations and extensive 

 statistics relating to temperature, precipitation 



soil composition and the like. 



Since the vegetation of a given region is the 



product of both past and present conditions, it 



follows that a survey of these in so far as it can 



