Economic BorANv oF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. 
By M. W. Gorman. 
The opinion which I formed regarding the flora of Alaska | 
during my first season there (1890), namely, that it is rich in | 
individuals of a limited number of species, I am now, after 
five seasons’ residence there, able confidently to affirm. On 
crossing Queen Charlotte Sound a material change in th 
flora is readily noticeable and some of the most familia 
plants and trees of Vancouver Island, such as Ranunculu 
occidentalis, Berberis aquifolium, Achlys triphylla, Ara 
hirsuta, Cerastium aveense, Claytonia exigua, Trifolium oli- - 
ganthum, Ribes Lobbii „Saxifraga integrifolia, Lithophragm 
creases the change in the flora. A great part of the present 
coast line and many of the outlying islands from Millbank 
north to Cross Sound appear to have emerged from the wate 
in comparatively recent times, as is amply evidenced by the 
entire absence of glaciation near the present sea level and | 
by the presence of clam-shells in fresh-water streams near 
the coast, the result being that the coast flora of Washingto 
and British Columbia has been slowly extending its limi 
northward, while the Alpine flora has been working its wa 
down nearer to sea level by means of the upland meadow: 
sphagnous marshes, and landslides. In southeastern Alask: 
