February, 1922.] 



The Canadian Field-Naturalist 

 victoria, b.c. 



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hanging root at "C". When I first saw the tree 

 it was in fairly healthy condition but it has been 

 failing slowly ever since, and when the photograph 

 was secured there were only one or two branches 

 alive. Not long after this the stem became 

 broken off at a point a 1 ittle to the right of "C". 



The break revealed the fact that the lower side 

 of the stem was alive and in a healthy condition 

 and furthermore that h had living rootlets pene- 

 trating into the soil of the crevice. Perhaps the 

 misshappen and fasciated appearance of the 

 stem at "C" may he because it had originally 



Photo by courtesy of III) Victoria utiiJ I^tund Dutlopmtiit Annoiiution 



Fig. No. 4.— A MOST REMARKABLE SPECIMEN, Arbutus Menziessii, Pursh 



The cause of this most remarkable growth is unknown. The tree has, since the taking *( f the picture, died and rotted away. 



