The West American Scientist. 



Necrophorus nigritus. Telephorus ingenuus. 



" marginatus. Leptura sphcericollis. 



Cantharis magister. Creophilus viilosus. 



" lugubris. Platynus cupreus. 



smaragdula. Silpha ramosa. 

 Calospasta perpulchra. " opaca. 



Phodaga alticeps. Cysteodemus armatus. 



Epicauta puncticollis. Megetra opaca. 



Tetraopes femoratus. Telephorus consols. 



Argoporis bicolor. Trichodes ornata. 



Cerenopus concolor. Scyphophorus yucca;. 



Derniestes mannerheimi. Chrysochus cobaltinus. 



Pterostichus lustrans. Hippodaniia convergens. 



Cycloneda abdominalis. Gastrophysa caesia. 



Haltica carinata. Carpophilus pallipennis. 



Pristoscelis suturalis. Schizopus Ijetus 6 & c^ 



sordidus. Hololepta yuccateca. 



L. O. Howard. 

 U. S. National Museum, June ii, 1889. 



THE TREES OF BRITISH COL UMBIA. 



(For the West American Scientist.) 



The great island of Vancouver, the largest isle on the west 

 coast of America, surrounded by many satellites of smaller 

 order, especially in the Strait of Georgia, and the mainland ol 

 the province, compare favorably in respect of forests, to any 

 State, province or country, either in North America or in Europe. 

 This great and magnificent province of British Columbia, now 

 brought into communication with eastern parts of the Dominion 

 through the Canadian Pacific Railway, contains such a variety 

 of plants from the magnificent Douglas fir to the modest cow- 

 slips that the future botanist of British Columbia, will find here 

 a most luxuriant field for study. 



The short account of some of the trees and other plants given 

 here is written with the purpose that the numerous readers of the 

 West American Scientist may form an idea of the magnitude 

 of botanical life in this remote province. The writer of these 

 lines has been but a short time in British Columbia, consequently 

 the account of plants will be found to be very incomplete; still 

 the author will endeavor to present as many facts as possible, 

 either from his own observations, or from those gathered by the 

 Government Department of Agriculture. 



In the province of British Columbia the Coniferae are to be 

 found in great profusion. Among them the first place belongs 

 to the Douglas Spruce, sometimes called Douglas fir, Douglas 

 pine, and Oregon pine (Pseudotsuga Douglasii), a magnificent 

 tree, often over 250 feet high and 30 feet in circumference, and 

 whose bark is sometimes 9 or 10 inches in thickness. This tree 

 grows very rapidly, and is divided by the woodman into two 

 kinds, yellow and red. The first has a reddish-yellow, knotty 



