Reprinted from the Canadian Record of Science, Vol. VIII, No. 3, 

 for January, 1900, issued 30th April, 1900." 



The Flora of the Rocky Mountains. 



By Rev. Robert Campbell, M.A,, D.D. 



The Rocky Mountain region is the botanist's paradise. 

 The route through the Rocky, Selkirk and Coast ranges, 

 taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway, is a very wonder- 

 land even to the ordinary tourist. He is carried through 

 scenery awful in its impressiveness. Even one who has 

 climbed Goatfell and Ben Lawers in " bdnnie Scotland," 

 or looked forth from the top of the Righi in the light of 

 the full moon and stood on that celebrated eminence 

 watching for the glorious sunrise, finds a series of 

 surprises and new sensations awaiting him, from the 

 moment the shadowy outlines of the mountains begin to 

 loom out from the surrounding clouds, after he has left 

 Calgary, until he has gone through Kicking Horse I'ass 

 and over the Fraser River. The Himalayas of India may 

 surpass our western mountains in grandeur, but certainly 



