Preface 



SIDNEY, 



British Columbia, 



Canada, 



January 3oth, 1915. 

 Dear Mrs. Henshaw : 



When you first told me of your intention to write a pop- 

 ular mountain flora, I assured you that such a work would 

 not only serve a splendid purpose in attracting attention to 

 the mountains, but that until the traveller had in his hands 

 some such book that would enable him to identify the many 

 flowers that grow there in profusion, he must feel lost 

 among the unnamed beauties which would surround him. 

 It was the one book needed. 



That the work should have been done as you have done 

 it, is more than I could have hoped. The beauty of the 

 photographs, the correct grouping of the flowers, the con- 

 cise and yet complete descriptions make it easy for even the 

 visitor of a day to identify all the plants he is likely to see. 

 Your choice of English names, when such had not before 

 been given to our alpine flowers, is excellent. They are 

 themselves often sufficiently descriptive to enable one to 

 idntify the species. 



I am glad to note, too, that the generic names you have 

 used are strictly in accordance with the Vienna Rules, as - 

 are also the specific names so far as these have been worked 

 out in Canada. 



Yours sincerely, 



JOHN MACOUN, 



Dominion Naturalist. 



